External Links

• A special report on the future of energy - economist.com
• The Case For and Against Nuclear Power - wsj.com
• Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments Climate Change Report, which is circulating for COG-member and stakeholder review through September 30, 2008

Recommended Reading

• Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy, by Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks, ISBN #978-1-59726-175-3
• Plan B 3.0:  Mobilizing to Save Civilization, by Lester R. Brown, ISBN #978-0-393-33087-8
• The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability, by James Gustave Speth, ISBN # 978-0-300-13611-1
• Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming, by Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn, ISBN # 978-0-393-06690-6

• Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: How Much at What Cost?, McKinsey and Company
• Understanding and Responding to Climate Change: Highlights of National Academies Reports, 2008 Edition (PDF), National Academies
• What You Need to Know About Energy 2008, National Academy of Sciences

• Climate Change and the Chesapeake Bay: Challenges, Impacts, and the Multiple Benefits of Agricultural Conservation Work (PDF), Chesapeake Bay Foundation, July 2007
• U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Hearing on The Impacts of Global Warming on the Chesapeake Bay (PDF), September 26, 2007, Dr. Christopher R. Pyke testimony

• Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt, Science, Feb. 2008
• Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions from Land-Use Change, Science, Feb. 2008
• Carbon Sequestration and Reforestation of Mined Lands in the Clinch and Powell River Valleys (PDF), The Nature Conservancy, May 2004
• Feasibility Study of Carbon Sequestration Through Reforestation in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed of Virginia (PDF), The Nature Conservancy and the Virginia Department of Forestry, March 2007
• Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies, Science, Aug. 2004
• Climate change in Virginia (PDF), The Nature Conservancy

• Transportation and Land Use Reform in Virginia

• Economic Impacts of Coal Utilization and Displacement in the Continental United States, 2015 (PDF), Adam Z. Rose, Ph.D. and Dan Wei at Pennsylvania State University for the Center for Energy and Economic Development

Government studies of interest

• The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on US Transportation – National Research Council - 2008
  Press release - http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=12179
  Online pdf - http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/sr/sr290.pdf
• Mid Atlantic Regional Assessment (MARA)
  Part of US National Assessment – funded by EPA: http://www.cira.psu.edu/mara/
  Peer-reviewed research documents on impacts, etc.: http://www.cira.psu.edu/mara/results/index.html
• Consortium for Atlantic Regional Assessment (CARA): http://www.cara.psu.edu/
  References and studies: http://www.cara.psu.edu/about/references.asp
• CARA Hampton Roads Case Study website: http://ccrm.vims.edu/cara_web/index1.htm

Climate change activities at the state and local level

• EPA index of Climate Change Actions by state and local governments: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/wycd/stateandlocalgov/index.html

Bordering state climate commission efforts

• Maryland Climate Commission: http://mdclimatechange.us/stakeholder.cfm
• Interim Maryland Climate Action Plan from commission (1/2008: http://www.mdclimatechange.us/ewebeditpro/items/O40F14798.pdf
• North Carolina Legislative Commission on Climate Change: http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/DocumentSites/browseDocSite.asp?nID=14
• North Carolina Climate Action Plan Advisory Group: http://www.ncclimatechange.us/capag.cfm

Relevant studies from bordering states

• Maryland climate Change Impacts: http://epa.gov/climatechange/wycd/stateandlocalgov/downloads/MDAppendices.pdf
• Maryland Sea Level Rise Response Strategy: http://www.dnr.state.md.us/Bay/czm/sea_level_rise.html
• Drowning the North Carolina Coast: Sea Level Rise and Estuarine Dynamics (North Carolina Sea Grant Publication) (4MB PDF): http://nsgl.gso.uri.edu/ncu/ncub03002.pdf
• North Carolina Coastal Impacts Study: http://econ.appstate.edu/climate/NC-NCEP%20final%20report.031507.pdf
• North Carolina Sea Level Rise Study, NOAA: http://www.cop.noaa.gov/stressors/climatechange/current/slr/welcome.html

• Shukla Climate Model Fidelity and Projections June 17, 2008 (Powerpoint presentation)