FrontMatter -- Foreword: About America's Climate Choices -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Summary -- Part I -- 1 Introduction: Science for Understanding and Responding to Climate Change -- 2 What We Know About Climate Change and Its Interactions with People and Ecosystems -- 3 A New Era of Climate Change Research -- 4 Integrative Themes for Climate Change Research -- 5 Recommendations for Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change Research -- Part II: Technical Chapters -- 6 Changes in the Climate System -- 7 Sea Level Rise and the Coastal Environment -- 8 Freshwater Resources -- 9 Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services, and Biodiversity -- 10 Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food Production -- 11 Public Health -- 12 Cities and the Built Environment -- 13 Transportation -- 14 Energy Supply and Use -- 15 Solar Radiation Management -- 16 National and Human Security -- 17 Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Climate Policies -- References -- Appendix A: America's Climate Choices: Membership Lists -- Appendix B: Panel on Advancing the Science of Climate Change: Statement of Task -- Appendix C: Panel on Advancing the Science of Climate Change: Biographical Sketches -- Appendix D: Uncertainty Terminology -- Appendix E: The United States Global Change Research Program -- Appendix F: Geoengineering Options to Respond to Climate Change: Steps to Establish a Research Agenda -- Appendix G: Acronyms and Initialisms.