Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II: Impacts, Risks and Adaption in the United States: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II: Impacts, Risks and Adaption in the United States, credited to USGCRP, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II: Impacts, Risks and Adaption in the United States by USGCRP. Read in English by Warren Kati Are you interested in learning about climate change and its current and future effects on the United States? The Fourth National Climate Assessment – Volume II is a 2018 report written in non-technical language by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, a panel of independent experts, as mandated by the Global Change Research Act of 1990. This report focuses on the human welfare, societal, and environmental elements of climate change and variability in the U.S., with particular attention paid to observed and projected risks and impacts. The report also considers risk reduction and the implications under different mitigation pathways. This audiobook is an abridged version of the full written report, which totaled more than 1600 pages. The Front Matter, Overview and Frequently Asked Questions chapters were recorded in their entireties, whereas only the Executive Summaries were recorded for all other chapters. A website address is provided at the end of every Executive Summary chapter recording where the listener can find the full written chapter. The full written chapters contain the hundreds of scientific references that support the content for each chapter.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II: Impacts, Risks and Adaption in the United States
• Author credits: USGCRP
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 38
• Listed recording duration: 8:48:52

Catalogue topics

• climate change
• human welfare
• key messages
• risk reduction
• mitigation pathways
• global warming

Opening tracks: first 24 of 38

1. 00 - Front Matter — 30:13
2. 01 - Overview, part 1 — 29:50
3. 02 - Overview, part 2 — 44:36
4. 03 - Overview, part 3 — 36:32
5. 04 - Our Changing Climate — 9:38
6. 05 - Water — 6:28
7. 06 - Energy Supply, Delivery and Demand — 7:56
8. 07 - Land Cover and Land Use Change — 5:37
9. 08 - Forests — 7:57
10. 09 - Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services, and Biodiversity — 5:59
11. 10 - Coastal Effects — 7:32
12. 11 - Oceans and Marine Resources — 7:44
13. 12 - Agriculture and Rural Communities — 7:38
14. 13 - Built Environment, Urban Systems, and Cities — 6:00
15. 14 - Transportation — 5:23
16. 15 - Air Quality — 6:22
17. 16 - Human Health — 5:42
18. 17 - Tribes and Indigenous Peoples — 6:28
19. 18 - Climate Effects on U.S. International Interests — 6:16
20. 19 - Sector Interactions, Multiple Stressors, and Complex Systems — 6:34
21. 20 - Northeast — 11:45
22. 21 - Southeast — 11:03
23. 22 - U.S. Caribbean — 12:45
24. 23 - Midwest — 12:40

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