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The climate assessment process, with a report to be submitted to Congress every four years, is mandated by law through the Global Change Research Act of 1990. The report, which took two years to complete, is the fourth in a series of National Climate Assessments (NCA) which included NCA1 (2000), NCA2 (2009), and NCA3 (2014).
The National Climate Assessment (NCA) is an initiative [1] within the U.S. federal government focused on climate change science, formed under the auspices of the Global Change Research Act of 1990. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
The MNCAA aims to bring climate change policy into the hands of local government and to make federal climate change policies more accountable. [ 259 ] [ 260 ] As a part of MNCAA, 75 mayors from across the United States, known as the "Climate Mayors", wrote to President Trump on March 28, 2017, in opposition to proposed rollbacks of several ...
The plan was first prepared in 2008 and was then updated every two years. [1] President Obama's last Climate Action Plan, issued in June 2013, included regulations for the industry with the ultimate goal of cutting domestic carbon emission, preparing the U.S. for impending effects of climate change, and working internationally to address ...
In December 2015, the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference called for the report. [1] The report was delivered at the United Nations' 48th session of the IPCC to "deliver the authoritative, scientific guide for governments" to deal with climate change. [1] Its key finding is that meeting a 1.5 °C (2.7 °F) target is possible but would ...
The 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report cited 14 reconstructions, 10 of which covered 1,000 years or longer, to support its conclusion that "Average Northern Hemisphere temperatures during the second half of the 20th century were very likely higher than during any other 50-year period in the last 500 years and likely the highest in at least the ...
Updated December 12, 2024 at 5:46 AM We've seen multiple bouts of shivering arctic air in the United States so far this winter, but to reach anywhere near the bar of all-time record cold in each ...
There were over 600 complete responses: 291 (45.2%) had been working in climate science for over 15 years, while 79 (12.3%) had 0 to 5 years of experience. When asked "How convinced are you that climate change, whether natural or anthropogenic, is occurring now?", 79.3% said they very much agreed (7), 1.2% were "neutral" (4), and only 2.1% were ...