NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research today announced that comments are being sought by Friday, Jan. 27 on the draft Fifth National Climate Assessment.
The Global Change Research Act of 1990 requires the U.S. Global Change Research Program to conduct a quadrennial National Climate Assessment to evaluate scientific findings and uncertainties related to global change, analyze the effects of global change, and analyze the current and projected human-induced and natural trends in global change.
The Assessment synthesizes and assesses the science and impacts of climate change across 2 physical science chapters, 17 national topic chapters, 10 regional chapters, and 2 response chapters.
