In conjunction with the releases of the four America's Climate Choices panel reports and the final summary report, the Division on Earth and Life Studies and the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate created five videos, one on the initial study process and one on each panel report. All five feature members of the committees that authored the reports discussing their findings and the research process that led to them.

These videos are all available on the National Academies' YouTube channel. If you would like to order a copy of the full collection on a single DVD, please email rfischler@nas.edu.

The first, America's Climate Choices, outlined the process undertaken by the committee members and the intended aims of the reports.

Advancing the Science of Climate Change maps out the realm of our accumulated knowledge regarding climate change and charts a path forward, urging that research on climate change enter a new era focused on the needs of decision makers. In this video, the leaders of that panel describe the panel's key findings and the lines of evidence that brought them to those conclusions.

Limiting the Magnitude of Climate Change calls for the United States to respond to the threats of climate change by starting now to change the way we use and produce energy. In this video, several members of the panel discuss its conclusions, including a proposal for an emissions budget to guide U.S. policy as well as measures that might be taken to reach that budget's goals.

The impacts of climate change are already in evidence and projected future impacts will have significant consequences. The range of possible future climate conditions demands a new paradigm for managing and protecting our people, resources, and infrastructure. The panel report Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change urges consideration of a variety of potential climate futures and associated impacts for which we must prepare, some well outside the realm of current experience. The report calls for a national adaptation strategy to support and coordinate a decentralized network of adaptation efforts.

As people, organizations, and governments move to limit the magnitude of climate change and respond to its impacts, demand for information to support climate-related decisions has grown rapidly. Today, however, the nation lacks comprehensive, robust, and credible information systems to inform climate choices and evaluate their effectiveness. This panel report, Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change, calls on the federal government to take the lead in coordinating climate-related information dissemination and management.