Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation and the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to
enter into an arrangements with NAS to study: (1) the current status of ice sheet melt, as caused by climate change, with implications for global
sea level rise; and (2) the current state of the science on the potential impacts of climate change on patterns of hurricane and typhoon development and the implications for hurricane - prone and typhoon - prone
coastal regions.