Editing National Climate Assessment (section)

==Global Change Research Act==
The National Climate Assessment (NCA) is conducted under the auspices of the Global Change Research Act of 1990. The GCRA requires a report to the President and the Congress every four years that integrates, evaluates, and interprets the findings of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP); analyzes the effects of global change on the natural environment, agriculture, energy production and use, land and water resources, transportation, human health and welfare, human social systems, and [[biodiversity|biological diversity]]; and analyzes current trends in global change, both human-induced and natural, and projects major trends for the subsequent 25 to 100 years.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.globalchange.gov/about/global-change-research-act |title=Global Change Act |date=n.d. |access-date=May 10, 2014 |publisher=USCCRP|location=Washington, DC}}</ref>

The Federal government is responsible for producing these reports through the [[U.S. Global Change Research Program|U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)]], a collaboration of 13 Federal agencies and departments.