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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: America's Climate Choices: Membership Lists." National Research Council. 2010. Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12785.
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APPENDIX A
America’s Climate Choices: Membership Lists

COMMITTEE ON AMERICA’S CLIMATE CHOICES

ALBERT CARNESALE (Chair), University of California, Los Angeles

WILLIAM CHAMEIDES (Vice Chair), Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

DONALD F. BOESCH, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge

MARILYN A. BROWN, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

JONATHAN CANNON, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

THOMAS DIETZ, Michigan State University, East Lansing

GEORGE C. EADS, Charles River Associates, Washington, D.C.

ROBERT W. FRI, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.

JAMES E. GERINGER, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Cheyenne, Wyoming

DENNIS L. HARTMANN, University of Washington, Seattle

CHARLES O. HOLLIDAY, JR., DuPont, Wilmington, Delaware

KATHARINE L. JACOBS,* Arizona Water Institute, Tucson

THOMAS KARL,* National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Asheville, North Carolina

DIANA M. LIVERMAN, University of Arizona, Tuscon and University of Oxford, United Kingdom

PAMELA A. MATSON, Stanford University, California

PETER H. RAVEN, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis

RICHARD SCHMALENSEE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

PHILIP R. SHARP, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.

PEGGY M. SHEPARD, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, New York, New York

ROBERT H. SOCOLOW, Princeton University, New Jersey

SUSAN SOLOMON, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, Colorado

BJORN STIGSON, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Geneva, Switzerland

Asterisks (*) denote members who resigned during the study process

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: America's Climate Choices: Membership Lists." National Research Council. 2010. Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12785.
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THOMAS J. WILBANKS, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee

PETER ZANDAN, Public Strategies, Inc., Austin, Texas

PANEL ON LIMITING THE MAGNITUDE OF FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE

ROBERT W. FRI (Chair), Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.

MARILYN A. BROWN (Vice Chair), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

DOUG ARENT, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado

ANN CARLSON, University of California, Los Angeles

MAJORA CARTER, Majora Carter Group, LLC, Bronx, New York

LEON CLARKE, Joint Global Change Research Institute (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory/University of Marland), College Park, Maryland

FRANCISCO DE LA CHESNAYE, Electric Power Research Institute, Washington, D.C.

GEORGE C. EADS, Charles River Associates, Washington, D.C.

GENEVIEVE GIULIANO, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

ANDREW J. HOFFMAN, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

ROBERT O. KEOHANE, Princeton University, New Jersey

LOREN LUTZENHISER, Portland State University, Oregon

BRUCE MCCARL, Texas A&M University, College Station

MACK MCFARLAND, DuPont, Wilmington, Delaware

MARY D. NICHOLS, California Air Resources Board, Sacramento

EDWARD S. RUBIN, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

THOMAS H. TIETENBERG, Colby College (retired), Waterville, Maine

JAMES A. TRAINHAM, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

PANEL ON ADAPTING TO THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

KATHARINE L. JACOBS* (Chair, through January 3, 2010), University of Arizona, Tucson

THOMAS J. WILBANKS (Chair), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee

BRUCE P. BAUGHMAN, IEM, Inc., Alabaster, Alabama

ROBERT BEACHY,* Donald Danforth Plant Sciences Center, Saint Louis, Missouri

GEORGES C. BENJAMIN, American Public Health Association, Washington, D.C.

JAMES L. BUIZER, Arizona State University, Tempe

F. STUART CHAPIN III, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

W. PETER CHERRY, Science Applications International Corporation, Ann Arbor, Michigan

BRAXTON DAVIS, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, Charleston

KRISTIE L. EBI, IPCC Technical Support Unit WGII, Stanford, California

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: America's Climate Choices: Membership Lists." National Research Council. 2010. Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12785.
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JEREMY HARRIS, Sustainable Cities Institute, Honolulu, Hawaii

ROBERT W. KATES, Independent Scholar, Bangor, Maine

HOWARD C. KUNREUTHER, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia

LINDA O. MEARNS, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder

PHILIP MOTE, Oregon State University, Corvallis

ANDREW A. ROSENBERG, Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia

HENRY G. SCHWARTZ, JR., Jacobs Civil (retired), Saint Louis, Missouri

JOEL B. SMITH, Stratus Consulting, Inc., Boulder, Colorado

GARY W. YOHE, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

PANEL ON ADVANCING THE SCIENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE

PAMELA A. MATSON (Chair), Stanford University, California

THOMAS DIETZ (Vice Chair), Michigan State University, East Lansing

WALEED ABDALATI, University of Colorado at Boulder

ANTONIO J. BUSALACCHI, JR., University of Maryland, College Park

KEN CALDEIRA, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, California

ROBERT W. CORELL, H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, Washington, D.C.

RUTH S. DEFRIES, Columbia University, New York, New York

INEZ Y. FUNG, University of California, Berkeley

STEVEN GAINES, University of California, Santa Barbara

GEORGE M. HORNBERGER, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

MARIA CARMEN LEMOS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

SUSANNE C. MOSER, Susanne Moser Research & Consulting, Santa Cruz, California

RICHARD H. MOSS, Joint Global Change Research Institute (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory/University of Marland), College Park, Maryland

EDWARD A. PARSON, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

A. R. RAVISHANKARA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, Colorado

RAYMOND W. SCHMITT, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts

B. L. TURNER II, Arizona State University, Tempe

WARREN M. WASHINGTON, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado

JOHN P. WEYANT, Stanford University, California

DAVID A. WHELAN, The Boeing Company, Seal Beach, California

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: America's Climate Choices: Membership Lists." National Research Council. 2010. Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12785.
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PANEL ON INFORMING EFFECTIVE DECISIONS AND ACTIONS RELATED TO CLIMATE CHANGE

DIANA LIVERMAN (Co-chair), University of Arizona, Tucson

PETER RAVEN (Co-chair), Missouri Botanical Garden, Saint Louis

DANIEL BARSTOW, Challenger Center for Space Science Education, Alexandria, Virginia

ROSINA M. BIERBAUM, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

DANIEL W. BROMLEY, University of Wisconsin-Madison

ANTHONY LEISEROWITZ, Yale University

ROBERT J. LEMPERT, The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California

JIM LOPEZ,* King County, Washington

EDWARD L. MILES, University of Washington, Seattle

BERRIEN MOORE III, Climate Central, Princeton, New Jersey

MARK D. NEWTON, Dell, Inc., Round Rock, Texas

VENKATACHALAM RAMASWAMY, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Princeton, New Jersey

RICHARD RICHELS, Electric Power Research Institute, Inc., Washington, D.C.

DOUGLAS P. SCOTT, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Springfield

KATHLEEN J. TIERNEY, University of Colorado at Boulder

CHRIS WALKER, The Carbon Trust LLC, New York, New York

SHARI T. WILSON, Maryland Department of the Environment, Baltimore

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: America's Climate Choices: Membership Lists." National Research Council. 2010. Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12785.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: America's Climate Choices: Membership Lists." National Research Council. 2010. Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12785.
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Climate change, driven by the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, poses serious, wide-ranging threats to human societies and natural ecosystems around the world. The largest overall source of greenhouse gas emissions is the burning of fossil fuels. The global atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, the dominant greenhouse gas of concern, is increasing by roughly two parts per million per year, and the United States is currently the second-largest contributor to global emissions behind China.

Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change, part of the congressionally requested America's Climate Choices suite of studies, focuses on the role of the United States in the global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The book concludes that in order to ensure that all levels of government, the private sector, and millions of households and individuals are contributing to shared national goals, the United States should establish a "budget" that sets a limit on total domestic greenhouse emissions from 2010-2050. Meeting such a budget would require a major departure from business as usual in the way the nation produces and uses energy-and that the nation act now to aggressively deploy all available energy efficiencies and less carbon-intensive technologies and to develop new ones.

With no financial incentives or regulatory pressure, the nation will continue to rely upon and "lock in" carbon-intensive technologies and systems unless a carbon pricing system is established-either cap-and-trade, a system of taxing emissions, or a combination of the two. Complementary policies are also needed to accelerate progress in key areas: developing more efficient, less carbon-intense energy sources in electricity and transportation; advancing full-scale development of new-generation nuclear power, carbon capture, and storage systems; and amending emissions-intensive energy infrastructure. Research and development of new technologies that could help reduce emissions more cost effectively than current options is also strongly recommended.

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