REPORTS

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The National Climate Assessment (NCA) is being conducted under the auspices of the Global Change Research Act of 1990, which requires a report to the President and the Congress that evaluates, integrates and interprets the findings of the $2.6 billion federal research program on global change (USGCRP) every four years.

National climate assessments act as a status report on climate change science and impacts. They are based on observations made across the country and compare these observations to predictions from climate system models.  The NCA aims to incorporate advances in the understanding of climate science into larger social, ecological, and policy systems, and with this provide integrated analyses of impacts and vulnerability.  The NCA will help evaluate the effectiveness of our mitigation and adaptation activities and identify economic opportunities that arise as the climate changes.  It will also serve to integrate scientific information from multiple sources and highlight key findings and significant gaps in our knowledge.  The NCA aims to help the federal government prioritize climate science investments, and in doing so will help to provide the science that can be used by communities around our Nation try to create a more sustainable and environmentally-sound plan for our future.

The previous Assessment (Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States) produced a report that was completed in 2009, and the first National Assessment was completed in 2000.  To see either of the previous reports, please click <a href="http://globalchange.gov/publications/reports" title="">here</a>.

<a href="http://www.globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment">http://www.globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment</a>

=According to Reiter, he was also a contributor to the IPCC's assessment report, but after finding himself "at loggerheads" with other experts, he resigned and asked that his name be removed from the document.Reiter has <a href="http://commerce.senate.gov/pdf/reiter-042606.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">described himself </a>as a "Lead Author of the U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change."  According to the United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), Reiter was on the "<a href="http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/nacc/health/teams.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sector Assessment Team</a>" for the project. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/paul-reiter#s7" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[7]</a>==