Full Committee Hearing - 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

2318 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 | Apr 17, 2007 10:00am to 12:00pm

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

Hearing Charter

Opening Statements

Full Committee Ranking Member Ralph Hall (R-TX)

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