Monday, November 7 at 7:30 pm Eastern Time

NOAA's Climate Stewards Education Project is pleased to welcome Brian McInerney, Senior Hydrologist at NOAA's National Weather Service Forecast Office in Salt Lake City, Utah as our featured speaker this month. 

Of the climate change research found in accredited journals, 97.4% of the scientists agree our atmosphere is warming and that humans are the main cause of it. As such, it's important to understand that in the scientific community there is no longer a discussion of this fact. The question then arises as to the magnitude of the warming we're facing, what changes we’ll we see in the world's weather and how those changes will affect the world's population. 

The evidence of climate change is compelling. In this lifetime we have seen sea levels rise, global temperature increased, oceans warm, ice sheets shrink, a decline of arctic sea ice, the retreat of glaciers, an increase in intense weather events, ocean acidification, and the decline of snowpacks. 

In this discussion, Brian will address the predicted and observed impacts of a warming climate to water resources globally, and then regionally within the United States. In the United States we can expect areas that receive the majority of their water supply from spring snowmelt runoff to transition to a rain driven hydrology. Where areas that were once snow covered mountains, we can expect those mountains to receive rainfall during the cold season. Additionally, we'll see a change in precipitation patterns affecting vast majorities of the population. This includes increased storm and rainfall intensity, more extensive and prolonged droughts, and a long term change in precipitation patterns. 

With these changes in our future, how will we adapt? In fact, can we change the rate and magnitude of our warming? What can one person do to alter our future? 

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