Reports on the Third Assessment from the California Climate Change Center
August 3, 2012
August 3, 2012
The California Climate Change Centre has just released Our Changing Climate 2012 the third major assessment on climate change exploring local and statewide vulnerabilities to climate change, highlighting opportunities for taking concrete actions to reduce climate-change impacts.
Of note to British Columbians is the transportation corridors vulnerability map on page 10, showing a number of critical transportation routes (rail and highway) that run through Metro Vancouver, some of which are in the flood plain.
Our Changing Climate 2012 highlights important new insights and data, using probabilistic and detailed climate projections and refined topographic, demographic and land use information.
The findings include: