Resource Category: Presentations

“Mirando los anillos de árboles encontré que hay un ciclo de 60 años aproximadamente, pero 60 años no es definitivo, podría ser 70 años y podría ser incluso menor, con un clima que no hay nada escrito en piedra.”

Community and regional, economic and land use planning need to factor in adaptation, involve the right people, with clear leadership, and keep the communities informed. Refresh the plan, and remain prepared, even if the risk seems remote and when time are “good”

Warm days, degree days, water deficit, potential evapotranspiration, water surplus, chilling hours, aridity index, humid season-dry season lenght, frost free season, annual rainfall.

Natural climate variability poses inherent limits to climate predictability … contributes substantial uncertainty to temperature and precipitation trends over North America, especially in winter at mid and high latitudes…

Studies of exposure to climate change and extreme events in River Basins in western Argentina, the Colombian Andes, and Canadian Prairies.

Human influence has been detected in warming of the atmosphere and the ocean, in changes in the global water cycle, in reductions in snow and ice, in global mean sea level rise, and in changes in some climate extremes

The answer to the oft-asked question of whether an event is caused by climate change is that it is the wrong question. All weather events are affected by climate change because the environment in which they occur is warmer and moister than it used to be.

“The main way climate change is perceived is through changes in extremes because those are outside the bounds of previous weather.

October 2013 was the 344th consecutive month (more than 28 years) with a global temperature above the 20th century average.

The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the Earth for millions of years.