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GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS IN THE UNITED STATES -- A STATE OF KNOWLEDGE REPORT FROM THE U.S. GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH PROGRAM |
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Photo And figure Credits Cover: Blue marble, USA, NASA WorldWind Inside Cover: USA map, NOAA/NCDC; Water
glass, Table of Contents: Planet Earth, NASA;
Water glass,©iStockphotos.com/luchschen; Tractor trailer©iStockphotos.com/Clayton
Hansen; Hospital scene, ©iStockphotos.com/Jeffrey Smith; San Throughout the report, Adaptation title texture, ©iStockphotos.com/Bill Noll Page 6, 13: Planet Earth, NASA Page 38: Lake Effect snow, Dave Kelly, NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory Page 41: Water glass,©iStockphotos.com/luchschen; Skagit River, Philip Mote PhD, Climate Impacts Group, Univ. of Washington Page 47: Turbidity in New York City’s Ashokan, Thurlough Smyth, Climate Change Planning,New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Environmental Planning & Assessment Page 48: Flood water road damage, Grant Goodge, STG Inc. Page 51: Two Lake Powell photos, John C. Dohrenwend Page 52: Water and energy corner schematic, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA and Tetra Tech Inc., Lafayette, CA Page 59: St. Lucie power plant, CCSP SAP 4.5 Page 55: Map, Rocky Bilotta, Earth Resources Technology Page 60: Hydro-electric dam, Philip Mote PhD, Climate Impacts Group, Univ. of Washington; Ship, NOAA Page 61: Tractor trailer©iStockphotos.com/claylib; Houses against bridge, Associated Press/Jeff Roberson Page 65: Kosrae Island photo, John E. Hay Page 66: Flooded railway Plainfield, IA, Don Becker, USGS Page 68: Broken bridge, Joe Furr Page 75: CO2 plant photos, Lewis Ziska, USDA ARS Page 80: Edith’s checkerspot butterfly, Camille Parmesan, University of Texas at Austin Page 83: Rob Wu, CCSP SAP 4.3 Page 85: Polar bear, Mike Dunn, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences Page 86: Pika, ©iStockphotos.com/Global Exposure; Climate change graphic depicting the changing forests, Boston Globe/Landov Page 89: Hospital scene, ©iStockphotos.com/Jeffrey Smith Page 91: Urban heat island, ©Crown Copyright and Licensing, Canada Page 92: New York and Atlanta smog, Paul Grabhorn Page 93: Los Angeles smog, ©iStockphotos.com/Stein Photo Page 95: Mosquito, upper corner, ©iStockphotos.com/Julie Le de Leseleuc; Virus cycle illustration, Deborah Misch, STG Inc. Page 97: Poison ivy plant and girl scratching, Sara Veasey, NOAA/NCDC Page 98: EMS officer and woman, Sara Veasey, NOAA/NCDC Page 99: San Franciso, Grant Goodge, STG Inc., Midwest flood, Associated Press/Jeff Roberson Page 101: Person in floodwater, Associated Press/Dave Martin; Aerial flood, USGS Page 109: New York City, Applied Science Associates, Inc.; Boston Deer Island sewage plant, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority Page 113: Dry Lake Lanier, Kent Frantz, NOAA National Weather Service Southern Regional Headquarters Page 114: Barrier islands, USGS Page 115: Fish plant, Barataria Terrebonne; Flooded area, Dr. Kerry St. Pé of the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary program Page 116: Flood levee, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Page 118: Chicago map, City of Chicago; Thermal image, Chicago Police Department and the Cook County Sheriff’s Department Page 120: Flooded highway, Missouri Highway & Transportation Department/USGS; Flood of 1993, NOAA Page 125: Dust bowl, NOAA Page 126: Mallard duck, ©iStockphotos.com/Andy Gehrig Page 127: Playa lakes, Katharine Hayhoe, Texas Tech University Page 128: Seedlings, USDA/NRCS Page 132: Map, Rocky Bilotta, Earth Resources Technology Page 142: Alaska pipeline, SSgt. Joshua Strang, U.S. Air Force Page 143: Leaning trees, NOAA Page 147: El Niño billboard, NOAA National Weather Service Pacific Region Headquarters Page 148: Micronesia, Eric L. Gilman Page 150: Ghost swamp, USGS, National Wetlands Research Center Page 152: Sea wall, Jack Pellette, National Weather Service Contact Information Global Change Research Information Office U.S. Global Change Research Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research Jack Kaye, Vice Chair, Allen Dearry Anna Palmisano Mary Glackin Charles Vincent William Hohenstein Linda Lawson Thomas Armstrong Tim Killeen Patrick Neale William Breed Joel Scheraga Jonathan Pershing EXECUTIVE OFFICE AND OTHER LIAISONS Robert Marlay Katharine Gebbie Jason Bordoff Philip DeCola Stuart Levenbach Margaret McCalla Howard Frumkin
This book summarizes the science of climate change and the impacts of climate change on the United States, now and in the future. It is an authoritative scientific report written in plain language, with the goal of better informing public and private decision making at all levels. U.S. Global Change Research Program CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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