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The following article from ClimateScienceWatch.org was posted on Monday, May 07, 2007 and is available in its entirety at the following Web address: http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/car4_impacts_chapter_evasive/ Title: "“Impacts and Adaptation” chapter of U.S. Climate Action Report 2007 is an evasive failure" Introduction: The U.S. Fourth Climate Action Report (CAR), issued in draft on May 4 for a 2-week public comment period, contains a chapter on “Vulnerability Assessment, Climate Change Impacts, and Adaptation Measures” that simply does not come to grips with what is expected in satisfying the U.S. “national communication” commitment under the climate treaty. This chapter is a big step backward from its predecessor, Chapter 6 in the U.S. Third Climate Action Report (2002), which drew heavily on the now-suppressed National Assessment, and signals the administration’s fundamental evasiveness about engaging in a forthright discussion of climate change impacts on the United States.  [Editor’s Note: See also the 30 July 2007 posting, Bush Administration submits evasive Climate Action Report to the UN.]