At 04:25 PM 10/8/2006, Tom Adams wrote: >I am trying to better understand climate impact prediction.
You might want to take a look at the US National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change. The following commentary contains a link to this report: http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/vanishing-na-part1/ The "Vanishing" National Climate Change Assessment, Part 1: The Administration Posted on Sunday, October 08, 2006 An October 3 story in Greenwire on the continuing controversy over the administration's actions to bury the first National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change quotes Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute as saying: "To the extent that it has vanished, we have succeeded." Here we clarify a few points about the actions of the administration to make the National Assessment "vanish". See our <http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/greenwire-national-assessment/>October 4 post for an annotated version of some key parts of the October 3 Greenwire article, "Finger-pointing persists over White House's handling of 2000 report." The Greenwire story left a few points calling for clarification and further explanation. In this post we will comment on the actions of Bush administration political officials in burying the National Assessment. In a companion post we will comment on the role in this affair of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, acting on behalf of the global warming denial machine. The context, briefly: The <http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/nacc/default.htm>National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change was developed in the 1998-2000 timeframe by a distinguished synthesis team made up of leading scientists and other experts, as well as hundreds of other scientists and experts who produced a large set of regional and sectoral reports, drawing on comunication with stakeholders and policymakers around the country. The National Assessment, supported by the federal government but scientifically independent, remains the most comprehensive and authoritative scientifically based assessment to date of the potential consequences of climate change for the United States. The reports looked at projected climate change resulting from human activities and identified a range of likely adverse societal and environmental consequences. <snip - see link for complete commentary> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
