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Scientific assessment of the effects of global change on the United States : executive summary  Cover Image Book Book

Scientific assessment of the effects of global change on the United States : executive summary

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  • Physical Description: print
    17 p. : 28 cm.
  • Publisher: [Washington, D.C. : National Science and Technology Council (U.S.), Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, 2008]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note: Executive summary -- Introduction -- Causes of climate change -- Trends and projections of physical changes -- Effects of global change on the natural environment and human systems -- Introduction -- Objectives -- Relationship to other Assessments and primary scientific literature -- Characterization of uncertainty -- Report structure -- Evaluation of overall progress by CCSP -- Program inputs -- Program outputs -- Trends and projections of global environmental change -- Radiative forcing and observed climate change -- Attribution of observed climate change to human activities at the global and continental scale -- Projected future greenhouse gas concentrations and climate change -- Analysis of the effects of global change on the natural environment and human systems -- Biological diversity, ecosystem composition, and the natural environment -- Agriculture and food production -- Land resources -- Water resources -- Social systems and settlements -- Human health -- Energy production, use, and distribution -- Transportation.
Subject: Climatic changes -- Research -- United States -- Planning
Climatic changes -- Research -- Government policy -- United States
Global warming -- Health aspects
Greenhouse gases
Biotic communities -- Research -- United States
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Research -- United States

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