This project is now complete! All files can be downloaded from the catalog page:
https://librivox.org/fourth-national-climate-assessment-vol2-by-usgcrp/
The Global Change Research Act of 1990 mandates that the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) deliver a report to Congress and the President no less than every four years. The Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) fulfills that mandate in two volumes. This report, Volume II, was released to the public in late November 2018, and draws on the foundational science described in Volume I. Volume II focuses on the human welfare, societal, and environmental elements of climate change and variability for 10 regions and 18 national topics, with particular attention paid to observed and projected risks, impacts, consideration of risk reduction, and implications under different mitigation pathways. This assessment was written to help decision-makers and other stakeholders by providing a thorough examination of the effects of climate change on the United States. (Warren Kati using excerpts from the report) This audiobook is an abridged version of the full written report, which totaled more than 1600 pages. The Front Matter, Overview and Frequently Asked Questions chapters were recorded in their entireties, whereas the Executive Summaries were recorded for all other chapters. A website address is provided at the end of every Executive Summary chapter recording where the listener can find the full written chapter. The full written chapters contain the hundreds of scientific references that support the content for each chapter.
- Text source (only read from this text!): https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/downloads/
- Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard
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Magic Window:
BC Admin
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Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/Science/Earth Sciences
Keywords that describe the book: climate change, human welfare, key messages, risk reduction, mitigation pathways
============================================ - The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
START of recording (Intro):- "Chapter [number] of Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II: Impacts, Risks and Adaption in the United States. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
- If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - Say:
"Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II: Impacts, Risks and Adaption in the United States, by USGCRP. [Chapter]"
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:- "Chapter [number] of Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II by USGCRP. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
- If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - Only if applicable, say:
"[Chapter title]"
- At the end of the section, say:
"End of [Chapter]" - If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - At the end of the book, say (in addition):
"End of Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II: Impacts, Risks and Adaption in the United States, by USGCRP. "
There should be ~5 seconds silence at the end of the recording. - Example filename 4natclimateassessmentvol2_##_usgcrp_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. 4natclimateassessmentvol2_01_usgcrp_128kb.mp3)
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