Witnesses:
Dr. Virginia Burkett
U.S. Geological Society (USGS) Global Change Science Coordinator
Dr. William E. Easterling
Director of the Pennsylvania State University Institutes of the Environment
Dr. Roger Pulwarty
Research Associate at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Climate Diagnostics Center
Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig
Senior Research Scientist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Dr. Stephen H. Schneider
Co-Director of the Center for Environmental Science and Policy (CESP) and the Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (IPER) at Stanford University
Dr. Shardul Agrawala
Visiting Research Scholar in the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at Princeton University
The State of Climate Change Science 2007: The Findings of the Fourth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group II: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability