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Part III
Pages 30-38

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From page 30...
... The systems. nation's scientific enterprise can contribute both by continuing to improve understanding of the causes and consequences of climate change and by improving and expanding the options available to limit the magnitude of climate change and to adapt to its impacts.
From page 31...
... . 2Other greenhouse gases are a factor, but CO is by far 2 the most important greenhouse gas in terms of long-term climate change effects.
From page 32...
... emissions important greenhouse gas to control alone will not be adequate to is carbon dioxide, which in the avert climate change risks. United States is emitted primarily However, strong U.S.
From page 33...
... Source: National Research Council, 2010b FIGURE 33 33
From page 34...
... A lthough adaptation planning and response efforts are under way in a number of states, counties, and search that focuses on climate change adaptation actions. In the short term, adaptation actions most easily decommunities, much of the nation's ployed include low-cost strategies experience is in protecting its peo- that offer near-term co-benefits, or ple, resources, and infrastructure actions that reverse maladaptive are based on the historic record of policies and practices.
From page 35...
... coordinator of local and regional efforts by providing climate change, the United States can be indirectly technical and scientific resources, incentives to begin affected by the impacts of climate change occurring adaptation planning, guidance across jurisdictions, elsewhere in the world. Thus, it is in the country's a platform to share lessons learned, and support of interest to help enhance the adaptive capacity of scientific research to expand knowledge of impacts other nations, particularly developing countries that and adaptation.
From page 36...
... Conclusion R esponding to climate change is about making choices in the face of risk. Any course of action carries potential risks and costs; but doing nothing and other decision makers across the nation; and those choices will involve numerous value judg ments beyond the reach of science.
From page 37...
... Nicole Spaulding and Kristin Schild, students from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, chip out near-surface ice samples as part of research into new methods for sampling the record of polar climate change. © 2012 National Academy of Sciences About the National Research Council The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of furthering knowledge and advising the federal government.
From page 38...
... How does science inform the response to climate change?


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