America's Climate Choices: Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change

Across the United States, the impacts of climate change are already in evidence and projected future impacts will have significant consequences. The range of possible future climate conditions demands a new paradigm for managing and protecting our people, resources, and infrastructure. The panel report, Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change, urges consideration of a variety of potential climate futures and associated impacts for which we must prepare, some well outside the realm of current experience. The report calls for a national adaptation strategy to support and coordinate a decentralized network of adaptation efforts.

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