The data source for this first sociology of climate change report will be The Fourth National Climate Assessment.

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This fourth volume of the recent U.S. climate change assessment (with the fifth national assessment forthcoming in 2023), reviews projected human, societal and environmental impacts from projected climate change in the United States under high and low emissions scenarios (RCP 8.4 and 4.5) through 2100. This report assesses impacts and adaptation opportunities separately for 15 sectoral areas of concern as well as nine regions within the United States.  (Links to an external site.)

Choose any (2) national topics (chapters 2-17). For each national topic:

• briefly restate the 3 or 4 key messages featured in that chapter and support /elucidate each message with an explicit example from that chapter. Click on “read more…” for examples. (message/example; message/example; message/example, etc.)
• share your single favorite impact insight from that chapter. Support your choice.

Then:

Choose one (1) region (of the nine highlighted in chapters 18-27 of the Assessment).

• briefly restate the 3 or 4 key messages featured in the chapter and support /elucidate each message with an explicit example from that chapter. Click on “read more…”  (note some regional summaries have more than three key messages, in which case, choose any three. (message/example; message/example, etc..

Each of these two national topic analyses and the one “regional” analysis should be approximately one-page in length, typed, single-spaced (three pages total).