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About the USGCRP Scientific Assessments:

In the United States, the Global Change Research Act (GCRA) of 1990 mandates that every four years an assessment of the impacts of global change in the U.S. be conducted by the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). Responding to this mandate, the USGCRP carried out during the late 1990s the first National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change in the United States. Between 2004 and 2009, the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), which incorporated the USGCRP, produced a series of 21 Synthesis and Assessment Products(SAPs).
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The latest Scientific Assessment from the USGCRP:

State of the knowledge report of Global Climate Change Impacts in the U.S. (2009)

Other Scientific Assessments from the USGCRP:

National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change in the United States (2000)