PPT-CLIMATE CHANGE RESOURCES

AT THE DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES Lauma M Jurkevics DWR Southern Region Climate Change Specialist March 27 2013 Southern California Water Dialogue DWR Climate Program Team of managers scientists engineers. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change rising global temperatures will very likely increase the frequency and intensity of heat waves droughts and heavy rainfall events adversely affecting agriculture forests water resources indu What part do Church investments play?. Human-induced climate change. The earth’s atmosphere is warming at an alarming rate.. Overwhelming scientific consensus is that the cause is human activity – primarily burning of fossil fuels. . Matt . Kelsch. , University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), The COMET Program. Levi . Brekke. , U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Pilot Project: Reclamation and UCAR’s COMET Program. Will begin at 10:00 MST. When you complete this module, you will be able to. Explain natural causes of global climate change.. Trace the flow of carbon through the carbon cycle.. Explain the natural and human-related processes that cause increases and decreases in the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere..  . All must: . Describe simple . solutions to climate change outside the home.. Most should: . Explain how a family could take steps within their home to prevent climate change.. Some could: . Analyse how the future could look if we all tackled climate change. . Climate change affects us all . – . but those hit first and hardest . a. re people . living in poverty. . Already. , 150,000 people die . each . year . from . the effects of climate change, . almost . Learning Objectives. :. To understand the evidence for and against global climate change- World and UK temperatures for the last 100 and 1000 years. To know the causes of global warming. To know the consequences of global climate change- social, economic, environmental and political consequences of global climate change and how they change the way we live. . Climatology. is . the study of Earth’s climate and the factors that affect past, present, and future climatic changes.. Climate describes annual variations of temperature, precipitation, wind, and other weather factors.. Melonee Montano and Hannah . Panci. Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission. Rising Voices. 4-11-18. Photo: Melonee . Montano. What is GLIFWC. ?. An intertribal. . natural resource agency . exercising authority delegated to it by its 11 member tribes . Catherine Thomasson, MD . Physicians for Social Responsibility. Risk Factors for Conflict. Competition for scarce resources. Migration. Partial social structures/gov’t control. Demographic & economic inequities . 17 January 2011. How and Why Does Climate Change?. Climate changes over a broad range of time scales. Years, decades, centuries, millennia. Many factors combine to affect climate. Variability of incoming solar radiation. Basic Approach and Resources. By . Tamatha. Patterson and Kelsey Thetonia. Indiana Watershed Leadership Academy. May 20, 2015. IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE. globalchange.gov. IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE. Is it getting worse?. Are Humans causing it?. Is Time running out?. Is there anything that should be done?. Is the “standard model” the only option?. Climate change?. . “Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.” Enrico Fermi 1938.. Climate Matters in the Newsroom Josh Murphy Center for Climate Change Communication (4C) George Mason University Overview Our Mission (4C) “ We develop and apply social science insights to help society make informed decisions that will stabilize the Earth’s life-sustaining climate, and prevent further harm from climate change.”