DURHAM, N.C. – The final volume in the America’s Climate Choices series of reports, conducted by the National Research Council at the request of Congress, has been released today. Key findings of the report, along with a pdf document of the report in brief, are available at

William L. Chameides, dean of 91’s Nicholas School of the Environment, serves as vice chair of the America’s Climate Choices committee.

He and other members of the committee will lead a discussion about the newly released report at a public “Conversation on Climate Change” from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in Room 100 of the National Academies’ Keck Center in Washington, D.C.  A question-and-answer period and reception will follow.

The event will be videotaped and made available online at .

The final report presents new overarching strategies for managing the risks of climate change while synthesizing the scientific understanding of climate change and ways to limit and adapt to its impacts, presented in four earlier reports released last year.

Climate Central's Heidi Cullen will host today’s post-release conversation with members of the report's authoring committee, including the chair of the committee, Al Carnesale of the University of California Los Angeles, and Chameides.

Other participants will include: Marilyn Brown of the Georgia Institute of Technology; Thomas Dietz of Michigan State University; Jim Geringer of Environmental Systems Research Institute; Philip R. Sharp of Resources for the Future; and Robert Socolow of Princeton University.

There will be a reception from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences, following the “Conversation on Climate Change.”