Climate Science & Policy
Credit: USFWS
Climate Policy Recommendations 2009
United States Climate Action Partnership -- A Blueprint for Legislative Action: Consensus recommendations for U.S. climate protection legislation
Congressional Budget Office
Uncertainty in Analyzing Climate Change: Policy Implications -- January 2005
Implications of a Cap-and-Trade Program for Carbon Dioxide Emissions -- Testimony, April 2008
Trade-Offs in Allocating Allowances for CO2 Emissions -- April 2007
Policy Options for Reducing CO2 Emissions -- April 2008
The Potential for Carbon Sequestration in the United States -- April 2008
Climate CBO Honorable Jeff Bingaman Letter -- July 9, 2007
CBO Testimony -- Approaches to Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions -- November 2007
Improving How Scientists Communicate About Climate Change -- March 2008
House Energy and Commerce Committee
John Dingell, Chairman, Committee on Energy and Commerce, 1st White Paper Cap and Trade -- October 2007
John Dingell, Chairman, Committee on Energy and Commerce, 1st White Paper Cap and Trade Memo -- October 2007
John Dingell, Chairman, Committee on Energy and Commerce, 2nd White Paper Competitiveness Memo -- January 2008
John Dingell, 2nd White Paper Competitiveness -- January 2008
John Dingell, 3rd Memo, Appropriate Roles for Different Levels of Government -- February 2008
John Dingell, 3rd White Paper, Appropriate Roles for Different Levels of Government -- February 2008
John Dingell, 4th Memo, Getting the Most Greenhouse Gas Reductions for Our Money -- May 2008
John Dingell, 4th White Paper, Getting the Most Greenhouse Gas Reductions for Our Money -- May 2008
IPCC Materials
An Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- Synthesis Report -- 2007
Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry -- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- 2000
The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability -- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- November 1997
An Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- Fourth Assessment Report -- 2007
A report of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- 2007
Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- April 2007
USCCSP Materials
Our Changing Planet -- The FY 2001 U.S. Global Change Research Program
Our Changing Planet -- The US Climate Change Science Program for FY 2004 and 2005
Our Changing Planet -- The US Climate Change Science Program for FY 2008
U. S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Report 3.4 Abrupt Climate Change -- April 2008
Reanalysis of Historical Climate Data for Key Atmospheric Features: Implications for Attribution of Causes of Observed Change -- April 2008
Effects of Climate Change on Energy Production And Use in the United States -- October 2007
Scenarios of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Atmospheric Concentrations -- July 2007
Global-Change Scenarios Their Development and Use -- July 2007
The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR)Global-Change Scenarios Their Development and Use -- November 2007
Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere Steps for Understanding an Reconciling Differences -- April 2006
Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Transportation Systems and Infrastructure: Gulf Coast Study, Phase I -- March 2008
The U.S. Government Accountability Office
Carbon Offsets:
- The U.S. Voluntary Market Is Growing, but Quality Assurance Poses Challenges for Market Participants (Highlights)
- The U.S. Voluntary Market Is Growing, but Quality Assurance Poses Challenges for Market Participants (Full Report)
- Federal Actions Will Greatly Affect the Viability of Carbon Capture and Storage As a Key Mitigation Option -- Highlights
- Federal Actions Will Greatly Affect the Viability of Carbon Capture and Storage As a Key Mitigation Option -- Report
