Environmental Policy Collection - 10 Matching Results
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- Climate and Airborne Pollutants
- This brochure provides an overview of how air pollutants have an impact on climate change.
- Climate Models: Frequently Asked Questions about computer climate models and their uses, strengths and limitations
- This brochure describes methods and technologies for assessing and predicting climate change.
- Human Health and Welfare and Climate Change: Summary and Findings of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program
- This brochure summarizes a report of the same title. It describes the likely impacts of climate change on human health, and potential adaptation strategies to limit the risks and damages.
- The Ozone Layer: Ozone Depletion, Recovery in a Changing Climate, and the "World Avoided"
- This brochure describes the role of ozone in the stratosphere, and the effect it has on ultraviolet light, as well as how the Montreal Protocol and subsequent laws have affected ozone-depleting pollutants in the atmosphere.
- Reanalysis and Attribution: Understanding How and Why Recent Climate Has Varied and Changed
- This brochure discusses climate change, and scientific methods of making climate observations.
- Water Resources and Climate Prediction: Linking Science with Decisions
- This brochure summarizes research that focuses on the scientific ability to predict climate on seasonal and year-to-year timescales and the opportunity to incorporate such information into water resource management decisions.
- Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate : Frequently Asked Questions
- This brochure corresponds with the Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate Synthesis and Assessment Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. It highlights observed changes and likely projections in North American weather, and how changes in North American weather are likely to have an adverse economic effect.
- Findings of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Report 2.2: The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report: North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle
- This brochure describes sources of carbon emissions in North America, and ways to remove those emissions from the atmosphere.
- Climate Change and Ecosystems Summary of Recent Findings
- This fact sheet summarizes information from a recent assessment of possible adaptation options to protect climate-sensitive ecosystems in the United States.
- U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Report 3.4: Abrupt Climate Change Summary and Findings
- This brochure identifies four types of abrupt climate change that would pose major risks to global health, security, and the economy.