Shell Oil Caught Planning for Deadly 4 to 6 Degree Rise in Global Temperature

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/17/1385496/-Shell-Oil-Caught-Planning-for-Deadly-4-to-6-Degree-Rise-in-Global-Temperature

Whoopsies. From The Guardian:

Royal Dutch Shell has been accused of pursuing a strategy that would lead to potentially catastrophic climate change after an internal document acknowledged a global temperature rise of 4C, twice the level considered safe for the planet.

A paper used for guiding future business planning at the Anglo-Dutch multinational assumes that carbon dioxide emissions will fail to limit temperature increases to 2C, the internationally agreed threshold to prevent widespread flooding, famine and desertification.

Instead, the New Lens Scenarios document refers to a forecast by the independent International Energy Agency (IEA) that points to a temperature rise of up to 4C in the short term, rising later to 6C.

[Romeo.lima333]

1. famine and desertification of earth

[randys1]

2. They must be confused, we have very powerful politicians in our country who say it is not

happening.

Now who am I to believe

this Woman

https://profile.usgs.gov/virginia_burkett

Virginia Burkett is the Chief Scientist for Climate and Land Use Change at the U.S. Geological Survey.

With the following resume

EDUCATION

1993 - 1996: School of Forestry, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas. Doctor of Forestry/Ph.D., 8/96. Major - Forestry; Minor - Applied Statistics

1973 - 1975: Department of Biology, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, Louisiana. Master of Science, 5/75. Major - Botany (Honors)

1970 - 1973: Department of Biology, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, Louisiana. Bachelor of Science, 5/73. Major - Zoology, Minor - Chemistry (Honors)

1968 - 1969: University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi

1956 - 1968: Primary and Secondary Schools, Biloxi, Mississippi


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (some appointments concurrent):

October, 2010 to present: United States Department of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Chief Scientist, Climate and Land Use Change.

2006 - 2010: United States Department of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Chief Scientist for Global Change Research.

1990 - 2006: United States Department of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Chief, Wetlands Ecology Branch and subsequent positions as Chief, Forest Ecology Branch, National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, Louisiana and Associate Regional Chief Biologist, USGS Central Region.

1997-1998: Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Forestry, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas (taught professional ethics course each spring and served as Graduate Committee Advisor).

1990 - 1992: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, School of Forestry Wildlife and Fisheries, Adjunct Professor

1988 - 1990: Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Baton Rouge, Director and Secretary.

1985 - 1988: Louisiana State University, Louisiana Geological Survey, Baton Rouge, Assistant Director.

1984 - 1985: Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Baton Rouge, Deputy Director and Deputy Secretary.

1982 - 1984: Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, Baton Rouge. Louisiana Geological Survey, Outer Continental Shelf Program Manager, and Coastal Management Division, Acting Director.

1978 - 1982: Louisiana State University, Office of Research and Louisiana Geological Survey, Baton Rouge. Research Project Coordinator III.

1977 - 1978: Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Baton Rouge. Marine Biologist II.

1975 - 1977: Louisiana State University, Sea Grant Program, Center for Wetland Resources, Baton Rouge. Research Associate II (molluscan/crustacean research).

1975, Summer: USDA Forest Service, Youth Conservation Corps, Kisatchie District, Natchitoches, Louisiana. Counselor.

1973 - 1974: Hickory Ridge High School, Natchitoches, Louisiana. Instructor of Biology, Physics, Chemistry, and General Science.


PANELS, COMMITTEES, BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS

Louisiana Seafood Marketing and Promotion Board, Member, 1984-85, 1988-90.

Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission, 1988-1990, Second Vice-Chairman and Chairman, Committee on the Role and Future Directions of the Commission.

Louisiana Forestry Commission, Member, 1988-1990.

Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, 1988-1990, Member and Chairman, Habitat Protection Committee.

Louisiana Scenic Rivers Task Force, Member, 1988-1990.

Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission, Ex-Officio Member and Secretary, 1988-1990.

Governor's Special Cabinet on Economic Development, State of Louisiana, Member, 1989-1990.

Lake Pontchartrain Foundation, Board Member, 1989-1990.

Louisiana Artificial Reef Council, Chairman, 1988-1990.

Louisiana Offshore Terminal Authority, Environmental Director, 1988-1990.

Governor’s Capital Lakes Task Force, Member, 1988-1989.

Louisiana Wetland Conservation and Restoration Task Force, Member, 1989-1990.

The Nature Conservancy of Louisiana, Technical Advisory Board, Member, 1987-1993.

Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Vice President, and Chairman, Directors' 2000 Committee, 1990.

Louisiana Oil Spill Response Task Force, Member and Vice Chairman, 1990.

Consortium for Research on Southern Forested Wetlands, Steering Committee Member, 1991-1994, and Chairman, 1993-1994.

Global Change Task Force, U.S. Department of Interior, National Biological Service, Member, 1994.

Louisiana Wildlife Federation, Board Member, 1995- Present; District Vice President, 1999; Secretary, 2000-2002, 2nd Vice President, 2002-2004.

Seventh American Forest Congress, Yale University, Southern Region Forest Research Committee, Chairman, 1995-96.

Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. Panel on Risks, Vulnerability, and True Costs of Coastal Hazards, Member, 1997-1998.

USGS/Biological Resources Division, Science Quality Team, Member, 1998-99.

USGS/Biological Resources Division, Amphibian Leadership and Monitoring Team, Member, 2000.

USGS/Biological Resources Division, Committee to develop an Invasive Species Strategy for the Central United States, Chairman, 1999-2000.

National Assessment Synthesis Team, US Global Change Research Program and National Science Foundation, Member and Lead Author, 1998-2001.

United Nations/World Meteorological Organization Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group II, Lead Author, Third Assessment Report,
Coastal and Marine Ecosystems, 1998-2001.

Louisiana State University, Center for Coastal, Energy and Environmental Resources, Advisory Council, Member, 1999-present.

Gulf of Mexico Program (state/federal/private consortium) Management Committee, Member, 1999-2002.

Coastal America, Gulf Regional Implementation Team, Member, 1999-2002.

Gulf of Mexico Regional Invasive Species Panel, Member and Co-Chair, Research and Development Working Group, 2001-2003.

National Academy of Sciences, Ocean Studies Board and Water and Science and Technology Board, Panel on River Basin and Coastal Systems Planning, Panel Member, 2002-2004.

The Wildlife Society, Technical Review Committee on Global Change and Wildlife, Member, 2002-2004.

CREST (Coastal Restoration and Enhancement through Science and Technology) University Consortium, Technical Advisory Board, Member, 2002-2005.

Gulf Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Study Unit (17 universities represented, based at Texas A&M University), Steering Committee, Member, 2002-2004.

USGS Louisiana Science and Facility Planning Team, Chairman, 2003-2005.

USGS Strategic Planning Team for Wetland Science, Member, 2003-2005.

H. John Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment - Advisory Committee on Sustainable Oceans, Coasts and Waterways, Member, 2004-2006.

Louisiana Spatial Reference Center, Louisiana State University, Steering Committee Member, 2004-2010.

United Nations/World Meteorological Organization, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group II, Lead Author, Fourth Assessment Report,
2004-2007.

Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Center Review Panel, Member, 2004.

USGS Global Change Science Coordinating Committee, Member, 2004, and Chairman, 2005-2007.

Integrated Scenarios Development Working Group, U.S. Climate Change Science Program, Lead Author and Member of the associated Federal Advisory Committee appointed by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, 2004-2008.

Gulf Coast Transportation Impacts Research Team, U.S. Climate Change Science Program, Co-Lead, 2005-2008.

Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture Management Board, North American Waterfowl Management Program, Member, 2004-2006.

United Nations Framework Convention on Biodiversity, Ad-Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Adaptation to Climate Change, Member/Author, 2005.

Editorial Board, Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, Member, 2006-present.

United Nations/World Meteorological Organization, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group II, Lead Author, Technical Paper on Water, 2006-2008.

Secretary of Interior’s Global Change Task Force, Member, 2007-2008.

Editorial Advisory Board of the Book Series Climate Change, Economies and Society: Leadership and Innovation, Channel View Publications, Clevedon, UK, Member, 2007-2009.

Avian Ecology Advisory Board, Everglades National Park, hosted by the Sustainable Ecosystems Institute and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Member, 2007-2008.

U.S. Geological Survey, Global Change Science Advisory Council, Chair, 2007-2010.

United Nations/World Meteorological Organization, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group II, Scoping panel for IPCC special report on Extreme Events and Disasters, 2009.

United Nations/World Meteorological Organization, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group II, Scoping panel for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, 2009.

Vietnam/U.S. Bilateral Working Group on Climate Change, U.S. Department of State, Member, 2009-2011.

NOAA Gulf of Mexico Climate and Resiliency Engagement Panel, Member, 2009-present.

U.S. Geological Survey, Global Change Strategic Science Planning Team, Co-Chair, 2010 to 2014.

Science Advisory Board, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Climate Change Science Institute, Member, 2010 to present, Chairman, 2013-present.

Science and Engineering Board, State of Louisiana, Office of Coastal Protection and Restoration, Member, 2010 - 2012.

Louisiana Sea Grant Advisory Committee, Louisiana State University, Member, 2006-present.

Interagency National Climate Assessment Task Force, Member, 2010 to present and Co Chair, 2013 to present. U.S. Global Change Research Program.

United Nations/World Meteorological Organization, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group II, Coordinating Lead Author, Fifth Assessment Report, 2010 to 2014.

Senior Editor, Regional Environmental Change, 2012 - present and Editorial Board member 2011-2012.

National Climate Assessment Development and Advisory Committee, Ex-Officio member representing the U.S Department of the Interior, Federal advisory committee appointed by the Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2011-2014.

Science and Engineering Advisory Board, The Water Institute for the Gulf, member, 2012 - present.

Science Advisory Council, Southeast Climate Science Center, U.S. Department of the Interior, member, 2012 - present.


PUBLICATIONS



Woodroffe, C.D., R.J. Nichols, V. Burkett and D. Forbes. (In Press). The Impact of Climate Change on Coastal Ecosystems. IN: R. E. Bowen, C.P. Carlarne, M.H. Depledge, and L.E. Fleming (Eds.), Oceans and Human Health: Social Implications and Well-Being, John Wiley and Sons, ISBN: 978-1-119-94131-6.

Burkett, V., A.G. Suarez, M. Bindi, C. Conde, R. Mukerji, M. Prather, A.L. St. Clair, and G. Yohe. (In Press). Point of departure. IN: Field, C.B., V. Barros, D.J. Dokken, K.J. Mach, M.D. Mastrandrea, T.E. Bilir, M. Chatterjee, K.L. Ebi, Y.O. Estrada, R.C. Genova, B. Girma, E.S. Kissel, A. Levy, S. MacCracken, P.R. Mastrandrea, and L.L. White (Eds.) Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.

Carter, L.M., J.W. Jones, L. Berry, J.F. Murley, J. Obeysekera, P.J. Schramm, and D. Wear. 2014. Ch. 17: Southeast and Caribbean. IN: Climate Change Impacts in the United States, The Third National Climate Assessment, J.M. Melillo, T.C. Richmond, and G.W. Yohe (Eds.), U.S. Global Change Research Program, 396-417. doi:10.7930/J0NP22CB.

Euliss, N. H., M.M. Brinson, D.M. Mushet, W.H. Connor, V.R. Burkett, D.A. Wilcox, M.W. Hester and H. Zheng. 2013. Ecosystem Services: Developing Sustainable Management Paradigms Based on Wetland Functions and Processes, IN: J.T. Anderson and C. Davis (Eds.), Ecosystem Services, Springer Publishing, pp. 181-227.

Codjoe, S.N.A., G. Owusu, and V.R. Burkett. 2013. Perception, experience, and indigenous knowledge of climate change and variability: the case of Accra, a sub-Saharan African City. Regional Environmental Change, 2013:1-15.

Burkett, V.R. 2013. Coping capacity. IN: Peter Bobrowsky (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards. Springer Publishing.

Burkett, V.R., D.A. Kirtland, I.L. Taylor, J. Belnap, T.M. Cronin, M.D. Dettinger, E.L. Frazier, J.W. Haines, T.R. Loveland, P.C.D. Milly, R. O’Malley, R.S. Thompson, A.G. Maule, G. McMahon, and R.G. Striegl. 2013. U.S. Geological Survey climate and land use change science strategy — A framework for understanding and responding to global change: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1383–A, 43 pp. http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1383a/

Parris, A., P. Bromirski, V. Burkett, D. Cayan, M. Culver, J. Hall, R. Horton, K. Knuuti, R. Moss, J. Obeysekera, A. Sallenger, and J. Weiss. 2012. Global Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the US National Climate Assessment. NOAA Tech Memo OAR CPO-1, 37 pp.

Burkett, V.R. and M. Davidson (Eds.). 2012. Coastal Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: A Technical Input to the 2013 National Climate Assessment. Island Press, Washington, D.C. 185 pp., also posted at http://www.globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment/nca-activities/available-technical-inputs

MacDonald, T., A. Becker, D. Bellomo, V. Burkett, J. Cikir, S. L. Cutter, K. Dow, J. A. Hall, M. G. Honeycutt, P. G. King, P. H. Kirshen, J. London, A. McGregor, J. A. Melby, L. Patton, E. J. Russo, G. Smith, C. Thatcher, and J. M. Trtanj. 2012. Vulnerability and impacts on human development. IN: Burkett, V.R. and M. Davidson (Eds.). Coastal Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: A Technical Input to the 2013 National Climate Assessment. Island Press, Washington, D.C., pp. 67-100.

Nicholls, R.J., C.D. Woodroffe, V. Burkett, J. Hay, P.P. Wong, and L. Nurse. 2011. Scenarios for coastal vulnerability assessment. IN: M. van den Belt and R. Costanza (Eds.), Ecological Economics of Estuaries and Coasts. Elsevier Press, Oxford, p. 289-303.

Codjoe, S.N.A., L.K. Atidoh, and V.R. Burkett. 2011. Gender and occupational perspectives on adaptation to climate extremes in the Afram Plains of Ghana. Climatic Change, 110:431-454. http://www.springerlink.com/content/n564v5462vx02241/fulltext.pdf

Burkett, V.R. 2011. Global climate change implications for coastal and offshore oil and gas development. Energy Policy, 39 719–7725.

Burkett, V.R., I.L. Taylor, J. Belnap, T.M. Cronin, M.D. Dettinger, E.L. Frazier, J.W. Haines, D.A. Kirtland, T.R. Loveland, P.C.D., Milly, R. O’Malley, and R.S. Thompson. 2011. Public Review Draft, USGS Global Change Science Strategy: A Framework for Understanding and Responding to Climate and Land-Use Change, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, Open-File Report 2011-1033, 32 pp. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1033/pdf/ofr2011-1033.pdf

Nicholls, R.J., C. Woodroffe, and V. Burkett. 2009. Coastline Degradation as an Indicator of Global Change. IN: T. Letcher (Ed.), Climate Change, Observed Impacts on Planet Earth, Elsevier Press, Oxford, pp. 409-422.

Burkett, V., L. Fernandez, R. Nicholls, and C. Woodroffe. 2009. Climate Change Impacts on Coastal Biodiversity. IN: A. Fenech, D. MacIver and F. Dallmeier (Eds.), Climate Change and Biodiversity in the Americas. Environment Canada, Ontario, pp. 167-193. http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1251&context=scipapers

Karl, T.R., J.M. Melillo, T.C. Peterson, D.M. Anderson, D.F. Boesch, V. Burkett, L.M. Carter, S.J. Cohen, N.B. Grimm, J.L. Hatfield, K. Hayhoe, A. Janetos, J.A. Kaye, J. Lawrimore, J. McCarthy, A.D. McGuire, E. Miles, E. Mills, J.T. Overpeck, J. Patz, R. Pulwarthy, B. Santer, M.J. Savonis, H.G. Schwartz, E. Shea, J. Stone, B.H. Udall, J. Walsh, M.F. Wehner, T.J. Wilbanks, and D. Wuebbles. 2009. Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. U.S. Global Change Research Program. Cambridge University Press, New York, 188 pp. http://www.globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts/download-the-report

Burkett, V. 2008. The Northern Gulf of Mexico Coast: Human development patterns, declining ecosystems, and escalating vulnerability to storms and sea level rise. IN: M.C. MacCracken, F. Moore, and J. C. Topping, (Eds.), Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change: Its Likelihood, Character and Significance. Earthscan Publications, London, pp. 101-118.

Burkett, V. 2008. Megadeltas and climate change. IN: Basins and Coasts News, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C., 2(1):16-19.

CCSP. 2008. Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Transportation Systems and Infrastructure: Gulf Coast Study. M. J. Savonis, V. R. Burkett and J. R. Potter (Eds. and Coordinating Lead Authors), Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.7 of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, Washington, D.C., 250 pp.
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap4-7/final-report/sap4-7-final-all.pdf

Burkett, V.R., R.D. Hyman, R. Hagelman, S.B. Hartley, M. Sheppard, T.W. Doyle, D.M. Beagan, A. Meyers, D.T. Hunt, M.K. Maynard, R.H. Henk, E.J. Seymour, L.E. Olson, J.R. Potter, and N.N. Srinivasan. 2008. Why study the gulf coast? IN: Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Transportation Systems and Infrastructure: Gulf Coast Study. Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.7 of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, Washington, D.C., 250 pp.
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap4-7/final-report/sap4-7-final-all.pdf

Keim, B.D., T.W. Doyle, V.R. Burkett, C. Tebaldi, I. van Heerden, S.A. Binselam, M.F. Wehner, T.G. Houston, and D.M. Beagan. 2008. How is the gulf coast climate changing? IN: Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Transportation Systems and Infrastructure: Gulf Coast Study, Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.7 of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, Washington, D.C., 250 pp.
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap4-7/final-report/sap4-7-final-all.pdf

Nicholls, R.J., Wong, P.P., Burkett, V., Woodroffe, C.D., and Hay, J. 2008. Climate change and coastal vulnerability assessment: scenarios for integrated assessment. Sustainability Science, 3(1):89-102.

Bates, B., Kundzewicz, Z.W., Wu, S., Arnell, N., Burkett, V., Döll, P., Gwary, D., Heij, B., Jiménez, B., Kaser, G., Kitoh, A., Kovats, S., Kumar, P., Magadza, C., Martino, D., José Mata, L., Medany, M., Miller, K., Oki, T., Osman, B., Prowse, T., Pulwarty, R., Räisänen, J., Renwick, J., Tubiello, F., Wood, R., and Zhao, Z. 2008. Climate Change and Water. Technical Paper VI of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland. 210 pp. http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/technical-papers/climate-change-water-en.pdf

Lee, H., Reusser, D., Olden, J., Smith, S., Graham, J., Burkett, V., Piorkowsli, R., McPhedran, J., and Dukes, J. 2008. Integrated monitoring and information systems for managing aquatic invasive species in a changing climate. Conservation Biology, 22:575-584.

Parson, E., Burkett, V., Fisher-Vanden, K., Keith, D., Mearns, L., Pitcher, H., Rosenzweig, C., and Webster, M. 2007. Global Change Scenarios: Their Development and Use. Synthesis and Assessment Product 2.1B of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research. Department of Energy, Office of Biological & Environmental Research, Washington, DC., USA, 106 pp.
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap2-1/finalreport/sap2-1b-final-all.pdf

Burkett, V.R., Groat, C.G., and Reed, D. 2007. Hurricanes not the key to a sustainable coast. Science, 315: 1366-1367.

Nicholls, R.J., Wong, P.P., Burkett, V., Codignotto, J., Hay, J., McLean, R., Ragoonaden, S., and Woodroffe, C. 2007. Coastal Systems and Low-lying Areas. IN: M. L. Parry, O.F. Canziani, J.P Palutikof, P.J. van der Linden, and C.E. Janson (Eds.), Climate Change Impacts, Adaptations and Vulnerability. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group II, Fourth Assessment Report. Cambridge University Press. London, UK, pp. 316-356.
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch6.html

Yohe, G.W., Lasco, R., Ahmad, Q.K., Arnell, N, Cohen, S.J., Hope, C., Janetos, A.C., Perez, R.T., Brenkert, A., Burkett, V., Ebi, K.L., Malone, E.L., Menne, B., Nyong, A., Toth, F.L., and Palmer, G.M. 2007. Perspectives on climate change and sustainability. IN: M. L. Parry, O.F. Canziani, J.P Palutikof, P.J. van der Linden, and C.E. Janson (Eds.), Climate Change Impacts, Adaptations and Vulnerability. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group II, Fourth Assessment Report. Cambridge University Press. London, UK, pp. 811-841.
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch20.html

Burkett, V., Draugelis-Dale, R., Williams, H., and Schoenholtz, S. 2005. Effects of flooding regime and seedling treatment on early survival and growth of Nuttall oak. Restoration Ecology, 13(3):471-479.

Burkett, V.R., Wilcox, D.A., Stottlemeyer, R., Barrow, W., Fagre, D., Baron, J., Price, J., Neilsen, J.L., Allen, C.D., Peterson, D.L., Ruggerone, G., and Doyle, T. 2005. Nonlinear dynamics in ecosystem response to climatic change: case studies and policy implications. Ecological Complexity, 2: 357-394.

Inkley, D.B., Anderson, M.G., Blaustein, A.R., Burkett, V.R., Felzer, B., Griffith, B., Price, J. and Root, T.L. 2004. Global Climate Change and Wildlife in North America. The Wildlife Society, Bethesda, MD, Technical Review 04-1, 26 pp.

Parson, E.A, Corell, R.W, Barron, E. J., Burkett, V., Janetos, A., Joyce, L., Karl, T. R., MacCracken, M. C., Melillo, J., Morgan, M.G., Schimel, D.S., and Wilbanks, T. 2003. Understanding climatic impacts, vulnerabilities, and adaptation in the United States: building a capacity for assessment. Climatic Change, 57(1) -42.

Burkett, V.R., Zilkoski, D.B., and Hart, D.A. 2003. Sea-level rise and subsidence: implications for flooding in New Orleans. IN: Keith R. Prince and Devin L. Galloway (Eds.) U.S. Geological Survey Subsidence Interest Group Conference, Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Galveston, Texas, November 27–29, 2001. U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division Open File Report 03-308, pp. 63-70.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/ofr03-308/

Burkett, V.R. 2003. Potential impacts of climate change and variability on transportation in the Gulf Coast / Mississippi Delta Region. IN: The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Transportation: Workshop Summary and Proceedings, October 1-2, 2002. U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of Transportation Policy. 13 pp. Accessible at http://climate.volpe.dot.gov/workshop1002/index.html

Burkett, V. 2002. Intertidal zones. IN: H.A. Mooney and J.G. Canadell (Eds.), The Earth system: biological and ecological dimensions of global environmental change, Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change; John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., Chichester, v. 2, pp. 365-369.

Scavia, D, Field, J. C., Boesch, D.F., Buddemeier, R. W., Cayan, D.R., Burkett, V., Fogarty, M., Harwell, M., Howarth, R., Mason, C., Reed, D.J., Royer, T.C., Sallenger, A.H., and Titus, J.G. 2002. Climate Change Impacts on U.S. Coastal and Marine Ecosystems. Estuaries 25(2):149-164.

Leatherman, S.P. and V.R. Burkett. 2002. Sea-level rise and coastal disasters. Natural Hazards Observer, 26(4):10-11.

Williams, J. and Burkett, V. 2002. Forum on Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Disasters. IN: Soundwaves, Coastal Science and Research News from Across the USGS. http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2002/01/meetings2.html

Burkett, V, Ritschard, R., McNulty, S., O’Brien, J.J., Abt, R., Jones, J., Hatch, U., Murray, B., Jagtap, S., and Cruise, J. 2001. Potential consequences of climate variability and change for the Southeastern United States. IN: Climate Change Impacts in the United States: Potential Consequences of Climate Change and Variability and Change. Foundation Document. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, D.C. and Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 137-164.
http://globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/first-national-assessment

McLean, R.F., Tsyban, A., Burkett, V., Codignotto, J., Forbes, D., Ittekkot, V., Mimura, N., and Beamish, R.J. 2001. Coastal zones and marine ecosystems. IN: Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Third Assessment Report, Working Group II report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). IPCC Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 343-379.
http://www.grida.no/publications/other/ipcc_tar/?src=/climate/ipcc_tar/

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[Politicalboi]

3. Always go with the men

Especially those men.

[freshwest]

7. I gotta K&R right here! n/t

[okaawhatever]

4. K & R nt

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5. Please post a GRAPHIC warning

when posting a photo of Louie Gohmert

[AZ Progressive]

6. I guess some people higher up in society don't think this guy is so far fetched...

[jberryhill]

8. Just keep them in Holland

Sea level rise is simply earth's immune system ridding itself of Royal Dutch Petroleum.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. well, that's upsetting.