America's Climate Choices
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    A new related report, Stabilization Targets for Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations, was released July 16. Click here for more details on that report.
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Policy advice, based on science, to guide the nation's response to climate change.
For more on this study, watch this video to learn about America's Climate Choices from the experts who are working on it.


As part of its most comprehensive assessment to date, the National Research Council – the operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering – will release three new reports examining how the nation can combat the effects of global warming. One focuses on the science to better understand climate change, and the others review options for limiting the magnitude of and adapting to the impacts of global warming. The reports are part of a congressionally requested suite of studies known as America’s Climate Choices.

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