NOAA Media Call on New Federal Climate Change Assessment Report

On Fri., Nov. 23, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. ET, experts will discuss the key findings of the Fourth National Climate Assessment Vol. II, which will be released by the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) that day. The report is an authoritative assessment of the impacts of climate change on the U.S. and its territories, and was written to help decision-makers, utility and resource managers, public health officials, emergency planners, and other stakeholders better understand the effects of climate change on the United States. USGCRP will also release the Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2).

This new report, also called NCA4, builds on the 2017 Climate Science Special Report (CSSR), Volume I of the Fourth National Climate Assessment, which described observed trends in the global and U.S. climate, and projections for temperature, precipitation, sea-level rise, and Arctic sea ice for the remainder of this century. CSSR served as the scientific foundation for the NCA4, Vol. II that will be released.

More information.

Reporters must RSVP to news.releases@noaa.gov to receive a link to the report website on Friday at 1:00 p.m ET. The report and website contents are embargoed until 2:00 p.m.

To participate in the media call, U.S. and Canadian media may call 888-469-1343 (toll-free)  Other international media may call 1-203-827-7009 (toll). Please use the passcode “NCA4.”

Media can also learn more about NCA4 at a special science session at the American Geophysical Union Annual Fall meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 11, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Room 202A of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C. Working members of the media may register here.