Informing Decisions in a Changing Climate examines the growing need for climate-related decision support‚ that is, organized efforts to produce, disseminate, and facilitate the use of data and information in order to improve the quality and efficacy of climate-related decisions. Drawing on evidence from past efforts to organize science for improved decision making, it develops guidance for government agencies and other institutions that will provide or use information for coping with climate change. This volume provides critical analysis of interest to agencies at every level, as well as...

An ad hoc committee, composed of individuals who have studied, participated in, or been users of global change assessments, was convened to prepare this report. To inform its deliberations, the committee met with scholars who have evaluated or participated in assessments, with leaders of past assessments, and with users of assessments. For the report's conclusions, the committee draws both from existing literature and from its examination of a relatively small but varied selection of global change assessments, each analyzing global change processes that are at least in part driven by human...

This 20-page booklet provides a high-level compendium of Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment. The Overview covers the most important impacts at the national level but does not attempt to provide a comprehensive summary of the entire assessment. Numbered references can be found in the Highlights. To supplement this Overview, regional fact sheets are available that offer highlights from each of the eight regions. These and other resources can be found at https://www.globalchange.gov/nca3.

The 148-page Highlights report presents the major findings and selected highlights from Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment. The Highlights report is organized around the National Climate Assessment Report Findings, which take an overarching view of the entire report and its 30 chapters. All material in the Highlights report is drawn from the full report. The Key Messages from each of the 30 report chapters appear throughout the Highlights.

Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. Includes in both PDF and HTML format: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program. Vision for the Program and Highlights of the Scientific Strategic Plan. A Report (41 pages) by the Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research. Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. A Report (202 pages) by the Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research.

The United States of America's Third National Communication under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

This CD includes the Program's annual Our Changing Planet reports from FY 2007-2009, plus an image collection with many of the illustrations in different resolutions (including high resolution).

Our Changing Planet. The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for FY 2004 and 2005. A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research. The CD includes image collection with many of the illustrations in different resolutions (including high resolution).

A Tour of the Cryosphere is a DVD produceed by NASA in 2005. "In a little more than seven minutes, some of the best data visualizers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center lead viewers across the icy reaches of Antarctica, the drifting expanse of polar sea ice, the shrinking cap around the North Pole, and more. The tour travels around the world in a single "shot"; there are no abrupt cuts or scene changes. The effect of this technique helps convey the interconnectedness of the cryosphere to the rest of the world, and also helps viewers feel that they are not so distant from the world's snow and...

This CD contains all four volumes of the IPCC Third Assessment Report in HTML and PDF formats. Volumes included: Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation & Vulnerability Climate Change 2001: Mitigation Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report In addition, the CD includes presentations and graphics with a selection of figures from various IPCC Reports.