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GAO-05-338R 1 (2005-04-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptariz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SGAO Accountability * Integrity Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 April 14, 2005 The Honorable John McCain The Honorable John F. Kerry United States Senate Subject: Climate Change Assessment: Administration Did Not Meet Reporting Deadline For many years, scientists have observed a warming trend in the earth's climate and have projected additional changes in the coming decades, with potential implications for human society. To provide for the development and coordination of a comprehensive and integrated U.S. research program that will assist the nation and the world in understanding, assessing, predicting, and responding to such changes, the Congress, in the Global Change Research Act of 1990 (act), required the administration to, among other things, prepare a national global change research plan, a summary of the achievements and expenditures in the area of federal climate change research, and a scientific assessment. The scientific assessment is to be prepared at least every 4 years and is to (1) integrate, evaluate, and interpret research findings on climate change of the Global Change Research Program (implemented under the Global Change Research Plan) and scientific uncertainties associated with such findings; (2) analyze the effects of global change on the natural environment, human health and welfare, and other specified areas; and (3) analyze current trends in global change and project major trends for the next 25 to 100 years. The first scientific assessment under the act was completed in November 2000, when the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the Executive Office of the President' transmitted to the Congress a 600-plus page report entitled Climate 1OSTP submitted the assessment, which was prepared by the National Assessment Synthesis Team, a committee of experts. GAO-05-338R Climate Change Assessment

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