1: Recommandations
The committee’s mission is to synthesize and summarize the science and information pertaining to current and future impacts
of climate change upon the United States; and to provide advice and recommendations toward the development of an ongoing,
sustainable national assessment of global change impacts and adaptation and mitigation strategies for the Nation. Within the
scope of its mission, the committee’s specific objective is to produce a National Climate Assessment that:a. Integrates, evaluates,
and interprets the findings of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and discusses the scientific uncertainties
with such findings;b. Analyzes the effects of current and projected climate change upon ecosystems and biological diversity,
agriculture, energy production and use, land and water resources, transportation, human health and welfare, and social systems,
including in a regional context; c. Analyzes current trends in global change, both human-induced and natural, and projects
major trends for the subsequent 25 to 100 years;d. Provides guidance on establishing a continuing, inclusive National process
that synthesizes relevant science and information about changes in the Earth system as they affect the Nation’s climate and
about how such changes relate to and interact with changes in social, economic, ecological, and technological systems; ande.
Support climate-related decisions by providing an information base in multiple formats, including web-based and hard copy
formats.
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