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"Climate Change Models: Preparing for a Century of Change"

Wednesday, July 29, 2009
2:30 to 4:00PM EDT

The Earth’s climate has entered a period of rapid, human-induced change that will last at least the remainder of this century, and most likely much longer.  The changes will be significantly larger than the Earth has seen in thousands of years, and will stress all of its biological heritage. I will discuss what we know about the coming change, including the expected average temperature rise over continents of about 1° F for every decade for the foreseeable future.  The United States is likely to see much drier summers everywhere and wetter winters over the northern half.  It is likely that there will be strong variability, with periods of unprecedented drought over the contiguous U.S. starting in the next 15 years. Mitigation actions could decrease the worst of the long term consequences.

Instructor:

Dr. Alexander E. (Sandy) MacDonald, Deputy Director, NOAA Research Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes and Director of the Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)

Co-coordinators:

Donna C. Brewer
Curriculum Manager
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
National Conservation Training Center
Shepherdstown, WV

Naomi Edelson
Sr. Manager
State Wildlife Programs
National Wildlife Federation
National Advocacy Center
Washington, DC

PDF of the Webinar presentation:

• Climate: Preparing for a Century of Change

Pre-Reading:

• Report released by NOAA: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States http://www.globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts/download-the-report

Resources:

• Recorded Seminar (in WFM format) - (link will be added following the webinar) This will open in Windows Media Player.  You can right click on the video and select "Save Target As" to download a copy.

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