1. Climate change assessments to date Earth Science 1 March 27, 2012

2. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, www.ipcc.ch)www.ipcc.ch First Assessment Report (FAR), 1990: http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/1992%20IPCC%20Supplement/IPCC_1990_and_1992_Assessme nts/English/ipcc_90_92_assessments_far_overview.pdf Second Assessment Report (SAR), 1995: http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/climate-changes-1995/ipcc-2nd-assessment/2nd-assessment- en.pdf Third Assessment Report (TAR), 2001: http://www.grida.no/publications/other/ipcc_tar/ http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/vol4/english/pdf/wg1spm.pdf Fourth Assessment Report (FAR), 2007: http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/syr/en/contents.html

3. US National Assessments US Global Change Research Program (http://www.globalchange.gov/)http://www.globalchange.gov/ – First national assessment, 2000 http://www.globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment/previous-assessments/the-first-national- assessment-2000 – Second national assessment: Global change impacts in the US, 2009 http://www.globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment/previous-assessments/global- climate-change-impacts-in-the-us-2009 – Third national assessment: in process, due 2013.

4. US Regional Assessments Usually the National Assessments require an a concurrent regional assessment as well: – 2000, 2009, currently preparing 2013. – Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) regional reports (www.climatechoices.org): California (2006) Northeast (2007)