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AGCI ELEMENTS OF CHANGE REPORT (2006)

Climate Change and Aspen: An Assessment of Impacts and Potential Responses

As part of the Canary Initiative, AGCI contracted with the City of Aspen in May 2005 to author a study to determine the likely consequences of global warming on the City of Aspen. The results of study are detailed in this installment of AGCI's ongoing Elements of Change series. The report focuses on three major areas: 1. Changing climate trends and projections in Aspen and the surrounding are... View

AGCI ELEMENTS OF CHANGE REPORT (2006)

Climate Scenarios and Projections: The Known, Unknown and Unknowable as Applied to California

This report utilizes California as a regional case study to categorize and visualize scientific uncertainties and assess the state of the art emission and climate models with an emphasis on the regional scale. The report addresses the following key questions: 1) What are the range of possible SRES scenarios; how likely are they; how can subjective probabilities be assigned, and at what levels o... View

BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (2005)

Human Factors Explain the Increased Losses from Weather and Climate Extremes

The financial damage due to extreme weather events has been increasing since the 1940s, and evidence suggests that societal shifts are the predominate cause of this upward trend. For instance, increasing populations around hurricane-prone regions account for enormous increases in damages over the last several decades, and the continuation of these and other similar demographic trends is likely to... View

AGCI ELEMENTS OF CHANGE REPORT (1997)

Planning for the U.S. National Assessment of the Consequences of Climate Change

The U.S. Global Change Research Program Act of 1990 requires the U.S. government to do periodic climate impact assessments of the United States. This Elements of Change report serves as a guide to help outline the content and approach taken for this important assessment. The content of this report reflects the discussions that took place at a 1997 AGCI meeting among federal agency representatives,... View