Authored by: 

• Gerald Meehl

Understanding the local impacts of global climate change is crucial, especially in places like Aspen where warming poses a threat to the ski industry, the economic life-blood of the town. However, such regional-scale assessments are difficult to accomplish with a satisfactory degree of certainty. In this lecture, Gerald Meehl, senior climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, offers the best-available scientific predictions for Aspen's future climate and discusses the implications these findings have for Aspens environment, economy, and society.

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• model
• modeling
• climate change
• global warming
• Aspen
• regional
• downscaling
• NCAR
• climate science
• climate scientist
• methodology
• impacts
• economy
• society
• skiing
• snow
• public lecture
• municipal
• planning
• policy