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Climate Risks in America: Process and Findings from the Fourth National Climate Assessment

Thursday, Sept 6

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David Reidmiller, Director, National Climate Assessment, U.S. Global Change Research Program

About the Speaker

Dr. David Reidmiller serves as Director of the National Climate Assessment with the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). He is on detail from the Department of the Interior’s U.S. Geological Survey. Prior to joining USGCRP, David was the Chief Climate Scientist and Lead Climate Technology Negotiator at the U.S. Department of State, where he coordinated the engagement of the U.S. in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, led U.S. negotiations related to science and technology in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and directed the Department’s efforts in USGCRP. He initially joined State in 2011 as a Science & Technology Policy Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Before his time with State, David was the American Meteorological Society’s Congressional Science & Technology Policy Fellow in the U.S. Senate, where he focused on energy-related matters. He also served as a Mirzayan Fellow at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine where he advanced the work of the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate and the Polar Research Board. David completed his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington in 2010. He also holds a B.A. in Chemistry from Colgate University.
 

About the Talk

The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) has a Congressional mandate to deliver a National Climate Assessment (NCA) every four years that analyzes human-induced and natural trends and projections in global change and their impacts on a variety of sectors across the country. The Fourth NCA was produced in two volumes: (1) Volume I (the Climate Science Special Report) was released in November 2017 and provides an authoritative update on the physical science of climate change, and (2) Volume II (Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States) released in November 2018, provides a comprehensive assessment of climate-related risks across the country. This presentation will briefly highlight some key advances contained in NCA4 Volume I before discussing the development process, main messages, and some novel aspects of NCA4 Volume II, with a particular focus on issues of relevance to the CMS community. The session also will discuss knowledge gaps and potential collaboration opportunities between USGCRP and the NASA carbon science community.

 


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