Climate change : hearing before the Subcommittee on Environment of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixteenth Congress.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Reform. Subcommittee on Environment, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency--Customer services.

United States.

United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Climatic changes--Government policy--United States.

Climatic changes.

Climate change mitigation--Government policy--United States.

Climate change mitigation.

Climatic changes--Health aspects--United States.

Environmental health--United States.

Environmental health.

Global environmental change--Health aspects.

Global environmental change.

Natural disasters--United States.

Natural disasters.

Emergency management--United States.

Emergency management.

Customer services.

Climatic changes--Government policy.

Climatic changes--Health aspects.

Genre:

Legislative hearings

Legislative hearings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (volumes)

Other Title:

Part I has title: Climate change, part I : the history of a consensus and the causes of inaction

Part II has title: Climate change, part II : the public health effects

Part III has title: Recovery, resiliency and readiness : contending with natural disasters in the wake of climate change (Climate change part III)

Part IV has title: Climate change, part iv: moving towards a sustainable future

Place of Publication:

Washington : U.S. Government Publishing Office, 2019-

Participant:

Hearing witnesses (pt. 1): Jeffrey Sachs, Ph. D., University Professor and Director, Center for Sustainable Development, School of lnternational and Public Affairs, Columbia University; The Honorable Tim Wirth, Former Senator from Colorado, Vice Chairman and President Emeritus of the United Nations Foundation; Michael Oppenheimer, Ph. D., Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Princeton University; Nicolas Loris, Deputy Director, the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation.

Hearing witnesses (pt. 2): Dr. Aaron Bernstein, Co-Director, Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University; Dr. Karen DeSalvo, Professor of Medicine and Population Health, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin; Dr. Bernard D. Goldstein, Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh; Dr. Cheryl L. Holder, Associate Professor, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University; Dr. Caleb Rossiter, Executive Director, CO2 Coalition.

Hearing witnesses (pt. 3): Mr. James Witt, Former Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency; Mr. Christopher Currie, Director, Emergency Management, Disaster Recovery & DHS Management Issues, on behalf of U.S. Government Accountability Office; Dr. Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Meteorology, Director, Earth System Science Center, on behalf of The Pennsylvania State University; Dr. Judith Curry, President, Climate Forecast Applications Network; Mr. Stephen Costello, Chief Recovery Officer, City of Houston; Adrienne Williams-Octablien, Director, Office of Disaster Recovery, on behalf of Virgin Islands Public Finance Authority; Mr. Mark Ghilarducci, Director, California Governor's Office of Emergency Services; Mr. Omar Marrero, Executive Director, Central Office of Recovery and Reconstruction of Puerto Rico.

Hearing witnesses (pt. 4): Robert C. Orr, Ph.D, Dean, University of Maryland School of Public Policy; Rachel Cleetus, Ph.D, Policy Director, Climate and Energy Program, Union of Concerned Scientists; Christopher Castro, Senior Advisor to Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, Director of Sustainability & Resilience, City of Orlando; Kevin Dayaratna, Ph.D., Principal Statistician, Data Scientist, and Research Fellow, Institute for Economic Freedom; Reed Schuler, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of the Governor, Governor Jay Inslee.

Notes:

"First session"--Pts. 1, 2, 3.

"Second session"--Pt. 4.

"April 9, 2019"--Pt. 1.

"April 30, 2019"--Pt. 2.

"June 25, 2019"--Pt. 3.

"September 24, 2020"--Pt. 4.

"Serial no. 116-15"--Pt. 1.

"Serial no. 116-17"--Pt. 2.

"Serial no. 116-38"--Pt. 3.

"Serial no. 116-120"--Pt. 4.

Access ID (govinfo, pt. 1): CHRG-116hhrg36637.

Access ID (govinfo, pt. 2): CHRG-116hhrg36639.

Access ID (govinfo, pt. 3): CHRG-116hhrg37262.

Access ID (govinfo, pt. 4): CHRG-116hhrg41980.

Date of hearing (pt. 1): 2019-04-09.

Date of hearing (pt. 2): 2019-04-30.

Date of hearing (pt. 3): 2019-06-25.

Date of hearing (pt. 4): 2020-09-24.

Online resource; title from part I PDF title page (govinfo, viewed July 18, 2019).

Other Format:

Print version: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Reform. Subcommittee on Environment. Climate change

Microfiche version: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Reform. Subcommittee on Environment. Climate change

OCLC:

1109395821

Publisher Number:

36-637 (GPO jacket number ; pt. 1)

36-639 (GPO jacket number ; pt. 2)

37-262 (GPO jacket number ; pt. 3)

41-980 (GPO jacket number ; pt. 4)