CONTENTS Page Peter F. Guerrero, Director, Environmental Protection Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, United States Gen- Dr. Jerry D. Mahlman, Director, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Dr. Patrick J. Michaels, Assistant Professor, Department of Environ- Panel II-Potential Impacts of Climate Change Dr. Robert T. Watson, Associate Director of Environment, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President ............ Dr. William A. Nierenberg, Director Emeritus, Scripps Institution of Dr. Robert W. Corell, Assistant Director for Geosciences, National Science Foundation, and Chairman, Subcommittee on Global Change Research The Honorable Jimmy Hayes, Ranking Democratic Member, Subcommittee APPENDIX II-RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS Questions submitted by the Honorable Dana Rohrabacher, Chairman, Sub- committee on Energy and Environment to the Honorable Warren M. Chris- topher, Secretary of State, the Honorable Hazel R. O'Leary, Secretary of Energy, and the Honorable Dr. D. James Baker, Under Secretary of Com- merce, and Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra- Page Tab D (Question 3) ... Copy of the final text of Summary for Policymakers of the Contribu- Copy of the final text of Summary for Policymakers of the Contribu- 344 345 352 •Copy of the final text of Summary for Policymakers of the Contribu- Copy of the IPCC procedures regarding the production of "Technical • Copy of the IPCC budget for 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997 ............. • Table of contributions to the IPCC, including U.S. contributions Tab J (Question 11): 434 435 437 438 •FCCC prepared report on Annex I Party national communications • Text of FCCC Secretariat's in-depth review of U.S. communications Tab K (Question 13): ........ 439 512 530 •Copies of FCCC Article 4.1 and Article 12.1 531 ⚫U.S. intervention from AGBM-3: Developing country commitments Copy of the initial report on an inventory and assessment of technologies to mitigate and adapt to climate change 576 Tab M (Question 19): ....... 588 List of measures considered for analysis and for case study development.. 589 Tab N (Question 20): 590 591 List of references of chapter 18 of IPCC (Annex I) 598 Copy of global change and health proposal submitted to CDC and NOAA. 599 Questions submitted by the Honorable Dana Rohrabacher, Chairman, Subcommittee on Energy and Environment to the Honorable Warren M. Christopher, Secretary of State, the Honorable Hazel R. O'Leary, Secretary of Energy, and Dr. Robert T. Watson, Associate Director of Environment, Office of Science and Technology Policy Tab A: Answers to questions Tab B (Question 3) Copy of the final text of Summary for Policymakers of the IPCC 611 627 677 677 •Copy of the final text of Summary for Policymakers of the Contribu- 345 Copy of the final text of Summary for Policymakers of the Contribu tion of Working Group II to the IPCC Second Assessment Report, 352 Copy of the final text of Summary for Policymakers of the Contribu tion of Working Group III to the IPCC Second Assessment Report, 370 Tab C (Question 4.c): List of NGOs/USGCRP 705 Tab D (Question 9.b): Figure B4 of IPCC 1992 report 706 Chapter 7 of WGIII: A Generic Assessment of Response Options ......... •Chapter 8 of WGIII: Estimating the Costs of Mitigating Greenhouse ⚫ March 6, 1996, on Quantified Emission Limitation and Reduction ⚫ March 7, 1996, on Policies and Measures March 7, 1996, on Advancing Article 4.1 Commitments ...... ⚫ March 7, 1996, on Possible Features of a Protocol or Another Legal Questions submitted by the Honorable George E. Brown, Jr., Ranking Demo- cratic Member, Committee on Science to: Peter F. Guerrero, Director, Environmental Protection Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, United States Gen- SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY AND PUBLIC TRUST: THE SCIENCE BEHIND FEDERAL POLICIES AND MANDATES: CASE STUDY 2-CLIMATE MODELS AND PROJECTIONS OF POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1995 U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT, Washington, DC. The Subcommittee met at 9:40 a.m. in Room 2318 of the Rayburn House Office Building, the Honorable Dana Rohrabacher, Chairman of the Subcommittee, presiding. Mr. ROHRABACHER. The Energy and Environment Subcommittee will come to order. I got up this morning and it was not as cold as I expected. I guess all the hot air we have been expending around here about the closing of the government actually has not warmed the environment at all. But we will see. In 1884, the head of the U.S. Patent Office, Henry Elsworth, suggested his office might soon be abolished because we had reached a time when everything useful had already been invented. That is a story we all know. In 1992, then Senator Al Gore wrote in his book, Earth In the Balance, that further research on global warming was unnecessary and in fact harmful because all the issues had been decided, and immediate action was required. Of course, we now know that there were a few useful inventions left, and we also know, three years later, that research is constantly revealing revised estimates of global warming. This is the second in a series of hearings on scientific integrity and the public trust. The hearings will look at how agencies under this subcommittee's jurisdiction are using science to formulate public policy. Today's hearing will look at the issue of climate change, specifically at the use of computer models to forecast global warming over the next 100 years. After the first hearing of this series, and that was a hearing on stratospheric ozone, Vice President Gore called us "Stalinists" for having balanced panels that included scientists who dissented from Mr. Gore's orthodoxy. So we invited Mr. Gore to testify. And to the Vice President we said, "My goodness, come here!" We know you have an interest in (1) |