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ernmental Panel on Climate Change. Involved with the IPCC since the mid
1990s, he served as a lead author for four different chapters in the Third
Assessment Report that was published in 2001 and as convening lead author
for the last chapter of the contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth
Assessment Report. In that Assessment, he also worked with the core writing
team to prepare the overall Synthesis Report. Dr. Yohe serves as a member
of the New York City Panel on Climate Change and the standing Committee
on the Human Dimensions of Global Change of the National Academy of
Sciences. He has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on
the “Hidden (climate change) Cost of Oil” on March 30, 2006, the Senate
Energy Committee on the Stern Review on February 14, 2007, and the Sen-
ate Banking Committee on “Material Risk from Climate Change and Climate
Policy” on October 31, 2007. In addition to accepting an invitation to join
the Adaptation Subcommittee of the Governor's Steering Committee on
Climate Change (CT), he is served on the Adaptation Panel of the National
Academy of Sciences' initiative on America's Climate Choices.
