Climate-change scenarios

Wagner, F.H.; Stohlgren, T.J.; Baldwin, C.K.; Mearns, L.O.

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In 1991, the United States Congress passed the Global Change Research Act directing the Executive Branch of government to assess the potential effects of predicted climate change and variability on the nation. This congressional action followed formation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988 by the United Nations Environmental Program and World Meteorological Organization. Some 2,000 scientists from more than 150 nations contribute to the efforts of the IPCC. Under coordination of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the congressionally ordered national assessment has divided the country into 19 regions and five socio-economic sectors that cut across the regions: agriculture, coastal and marine systems, forests, human health, and water. Potential climate-change effects are being assessed in each region and sector, and those efforts collectively make up the national assessment. This document reports the assessment of potential climate-change effects on the Rocky Mountain/Great Basin (RMGB) region which encompasses parts of nine western states. The assessment began February 16-18, 1998 with a workshop in Salt Lake City co-convened by Frederic H. Wagner of Utah State University and Jill Baron of the U.S. Geological Survey Biological Resources Division (BRD). Invitations were sent to some 300 scientists and stakeholders representing 18 socio-economic sectors in nine statesa?|

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Wagner, F.H.; Stohlgren, T.J.; Baldwin, C.K.; Mearns, L.O.

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Fort Collins Science Center

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Wagner, F.H.

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Rocky Mountain/Great Basin regional climate-change assessment. Report for the U.S. Global Change research program

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p. 35-78

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Utah State University

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Climate-change scenarios; 2003; Article; Report; Rocky Mountain/Great Basin regional climate-change assessment. Report for the U.S. Global Change research program; Wagner, F.H.; Stohlgren, T.J.; Baldwin, C.K.; Mearns, L.O.