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Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
Edited by
James J. McCarthy
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Harvard University
Osvaldo F. Canziani
National Universities
of La Plata and Comahue
Neil A. Leary
IPCC Working Group II
Technical Support Unit
David J. Dokken
University Corporation
for Atmospheric Research
Kasey S. White
IPCC Working Group II
Technical Support Unit
Contribution of Working Group II to the Third Assessment Report
of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Cover Image Credit
E a r t h 's city lights—shown for a projection spanning Europe, Asia,
and Africa—is one indicator of the scale of human influence on the world.
The brightest areas of the Earth are the most urbanized, but not necessarily
the most populated. Image by Robert Simmon and Craig Mayhew, Science Systems
and Applications, Inc.; data courtesy of the United States Air Force Defense
Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration's National Geophysical Data Center, based on research performed
by Dr. Marc Imhoff of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's
Goddard Space Flight Center.
Published for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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