Provided below are links to responses to comments on a draft version of Chapter
6 of Climate Action Report 2002. The comments were received through
a Federal Register process. Dr. Michael MacCracken, senior
scientist in the Office of the US Global Change Research Program, prepared the
responses as input to the process of preparing and reviewing the interagency
report. On some questions, he consulted with:
The responses represent Dr. MacCracken's views. Unlike the final
version of Chapter 6, these responses have not been fully reviewed or officially
adopted by the USGCRP agencies.
List of Those Who
Submitted Comments
American Petroleum Institute (API)
Climate Action Network -- two
sets of comments were submitted; for the general comments, they are
differentiated as Climate Action Network (CAN) and Climate Action Network Two
(CAN2)
Department of Interior (DOI)
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Ford Motor Company
General Motors
Dr. Patrick J. Michaels
Professor of Environmental Sciences and
State Climatologist for Virginia
Clark Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville VA 22903
Telephone (804) 924-0549
Fax (804) 295-7549
Email pjm8x@virginia.edu
Notes on Abbreviations Used
IPCC -- Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change, with references made to their various Working Group (WG)
reports, including Working Group I (WG I) on climate change, Working
Group (WG II) on Impacts and Adaptation, and Working Group III (WG
III) on Mitigation, and generally referring to the findings of their Third
Assessment Reports (TAR) approved and published by Cambridge University
Press in 2001.
NCDC -- NOAA's National
Climatic Data Center, which is the official climate data repository for the
US.
NRC -- National Research
Council, with reference generally to their 2001 report entitled Climate
Change Science that was prepared to evaluate the IPCC WG I TAR and is
available from the National Academy Press.
UNFCCC -- United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change, which was negotiated at the Rio
Conference and 1992 and subsequently approved by the US Senate. Under this
agreement, the US is obligated to submit a Climate Action Report about every
four years. This chapter is being prepared as a contribution to the Third
Climate Action Report (CAR).
USNA -- US National
Assessment, generally referring to the Overview and Foundation reports
prepared by the National Assessment Synthesis Team (NAST) and released
by the President on November 11, 2000 and subsequently published by Cambridge
University Press. In addition to the national level study, the set of National
Assessment activities included a set of five sectoral assessments and sixteen
regional assessments (plus several additional regional workshops).
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