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Outreach Updates

This guidebook provides a detailed description of why and how local governments should prepare for global warming. It offers collaboration between the UW Climate Impacts Group and King County, Washington, and is anticipated to be completed in late 2006.

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Outreach Updates

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  1. http://www.yakima.net/ UW Climate Impacts Group UW Climate Impacts Group UW Climate Impacts Group UW Climate Impacts Group Climate Science in the Public Interest UW Climate Impacts Group Outreach Updates Lara Whitely Binder Climate Impacts Group Center for Science in the Earth System October 17, 2006 October 17, 2006 www.cses.washington.edu/cig

  2. The importance of adaptation October 17, 2006 www.cses.washington.edu/cig

  3. Why Adaptive Planning? • Decisions with long-term impacts are being made every day • Significant impacts of climate change projected within decades, i.e., the timescale of adaptation planning • Significant time is required for motivating and developing adaptive capacity and for implementing changes • Increasing evidence that it will cost more to retrofit for climate resilience than to build it in in the first place October 17, 2006 www.cses.washington.edu/cig

  4. Setting the course for adaptation: A guidebook for planning for climate change • Provides detailed description of why and how to prepare for global warming at the local/regional scale • Collaboration between UW Climate Impacts Group and King County, Washington • To be published by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability • Anticipated completion date: Late 2006 Content includes October 17, 2006 www.cses.washington.edu/cig

  5. GIS tool delivers sub-regionally based information on climate and climate impacts. Mapping past and future patterns of PNW climate, including future climate scenarios. Numerous data layers: Elevation, hydrography (rivers/lakes), watershed boundaries, vegetation and land cover, soils, land ownership, political boundaries Benefit: Designed to aid planning efforts by providing information about the patterns of variability and change at a variety of spatial scales PNW Climate Maps October 17, 2006 www.cses.washington.edu/cig

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  8. More information on PNW climate impacts and planning for climate change is available from The Climate Impacts Group www.cses.washington.ed/cig October 17, 2006 www.cses.washington.edu/cig

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