Climate change assessments to date Earth Science 1 March 27, 2012
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, First Assessment Report (FAR), 1990: nts/English/ipcc_90_92_assessments_far_overview.pdf Second Assessment Report (SAR), 1995: en.pdf Third Assessment Report (TAR), 2001: Fourth Assessment Report (FAR), 2007:
US National Assessments US Global Change Research Program ( – First national assessment, assessment-2000 – Second national assessment: Global change impacts in the US, climate-change-impacts-in-the-us-2009 – Third national assessment: in process, due 2013.
US Regional Assessments Usually the National Assessments require an a concurrent regional assessment as well: – 2000, 2009, currently preparing – Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) regional reports ( California (2006) Northeast (2007)