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Our Changing Planet.  The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Years 2004 and 2005.  A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research. A Supplement to the President’s Fiscal Year 2004 and 2005 Budgets. See also press release (dtd 25 Aug 2004) (posted 25 August 2004).

The US Climate Change Research Initiative (CCRI):Survey of Research Strategies to Reduce Scientific Uncertainties.  Document (August 2001) Presented By Donald L. Evans, Secretary, Department of Commerce, at the Request of President George W. Bush, Jr. (posted 24 June 2002)

Global Change Research Highlights.  Periodic features documenting key initiatives of the US Global Change Research Program. (updated 21 June 2002)

Human Interactions with the Carbon Cycle. Summary of a Workshop.   By Paul C. Stern for the  National Research Council,  Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2002).

Agency Data Sets Related to Global Change, Newly Available in 2001.  Document (dtd April 2002) from the US National Science and Technology Council (NSTC),  Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (CENR), Subcommittee on Global Change Research (SGCR), Data and Information Working Group.  Fifth of a series of yearly publications.  (link posted 10 May 2002)

US Global Climate Change Initiative (posted 14 Feb 2002)

• Transcript of President Bush's Speech. Presented 14 February 2002 at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Silver Spring, Maryland.

• Fact Sheet

• Global Climate Change Policy Book.  Includes graphics:

  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions per Unit of Gross Domestic Product, Through 2015

  • Path to Long-Term Stabilization

  • Forecast US Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions from Business-as-Usual Levels, 2012

Presentations to  the American Meteorological Society, 14 January 2002

• USGCRP Global Change Research Update. [172 Kilobytes Microsoft PowerPoint file].  Presentation by Richard Moss, Executive Director, US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Coordination Office. (posted 24 January 2002)
• NOAA Climate Services and the USGCRP.  [3.6 Megabytes, Microsoft PowerPoint file].  Presentation by David Goodrich, Director, NOAA Climate Observations and Services Office.  (posted 18 January 2002)
• Overview of EPA's Global Change Research Program's 10-Year Plan.  [Microsoft PowerPoint file, 5.6 Megabytes].  This PowerPoint slide presentation given by Dr. Janet Gamble describes EPA's Global Change Research Program and its planned activities for the next decade.   (posted 18 January 2002)

A Plan for a New Science Initiative on the Global Water Cycle.  Final report (dtd 2001)  from the Water Cycle Study Group (WCSG), chaired by George Hornberger of the University of Virginia. The group was appointed in late 1999 to advise the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) agencies on the development of a Global Water Cycle Program within the USGCRP.   The Plan describes the rationale for an enhanced scientific research effort on the global water cycle over the next decade and poses three key science questions -- about water-cycle variability, about prediction, and about links with ecosystem processes.  (posted 17 October 2001)

Report on the Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period (CEOP) International Workshop.  (also available as MS Word 6/95 file).  The workshop was held 27 February-1 March 2001,  at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.   Sponsored by NOAA Office of Global Programs NASA Land Surface Hydrology Program. (posted 27 June 2001)

USGCRP: Fiscal Year 2002 Program and Strategic Planning.  [5.7 Megabyte Microsoft PowerPoint file] Presentation by Dr Margaret Leinen before US Senate Staff, 7 May 2001.  Dr. Leinen is  Chair of the Subcommittee on Global Change Research (SGCR), Committee on Environment & Natural Resources (CENR), National Science and Technology Council.  The SGCR oversees the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP).   (link posted 7 May 2001)

US National Assessment of Climate Change.  Access online reports and other material from the US National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change.  (link posted 2 April 2001)

Agency Data Sets Related to Global Change, Newly Available in 2000.  Document (dtd March 2001) from the US National Science and Technology Council (NSTC),  Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (CENR), Subcommittee on Global Change Research (SGCR), Data and Information Working Group.  This fourth of a series of yearly publications represents another important step in the interagency process of making data and information related to the Global Change Research Program available. One of this publication's objectives is to provide this diverse user community with a concise summary of what data has been cataloged and made newly available each year. (link posted 16 March 2001)

High-End Climate Science: Development of Modeling and Related Computing Capabilities (Also available: PDF version, 321 kb).  A report (dtd December 2000) to the US Global Change Research Program from the US government's ad hoc Working Group on Climate Modeling. (link posted 18 Jan 2001)

Our Changing Planet, The Fiscal Year 2000 US Global Change Research Program. (dated 1999)

Our Changing Planet, The Fiscal Year 1999 US Global Change Research Program. (dated 1998)

Our Changing Planet, The FY1998 US Global Change Research Program.

"Is the Climate Changing? Indeed It Is".  by Michael MacCracken Director of the Office of the US Global Change Research Program, Washington DC and Tom Karl Senior Scientist at the National Climatic Data Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Asheville NC. appears in Bob Ryan's 1997 Almanac & Guide for the Weatherwise published by WRC-TV, Washington DC.

Our Changing Planet, The FY1997 US Global Change Research Program.  

WHO Report Summary: "Climate Change and Human Health" - An Assessment Prepared by a Task Group on Behalf of the World Health Organization, the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme. (16 July 1996)

Prepared statement of The Honorable John H. Gibbons, Director, Office of Science and Tehcnology Policy before the subcommittee on Veterans' Affairs, HUD, and Independent Agencies Committee on Appropriations, US House of Representatives, FY97 House Appropriations Testimony/OSTP (30 April 1996)

Joint Communique from the SIXTH U.S.-JAPAN JOINT HIGH-LEVEL COMMITTEE MEETING ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (2 May 1996)

 "American Diplomacy and the Global Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century" : Address by Secretary of State Warren Christopher to Stanford University. (9 April 1996)

 "American Diplomacy and the Global Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century": Q&A Session after address by Secretary of State Warren Christopher to Stanford University. (9 April 1996)

Our Changing Planet, The FY1996 US Global Change Research Program

"Climate Change: State of Knowledge" (Environmental division, OSTP, Executive Office of the President, Washington, DC)

Nature: "Climate Change: The Evidence Mounts Up"