Global Warming and Aspen in the 21st Century
Date:
Thursday, January 5, 2006
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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
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- policy