MET 112 Global Climate Change- Lecture 13a30 April 2009

Observations and Predictions

Dr. Craig ClementsSan Jose State University

Temperature Changes in California: different emissions scenarios.

(California Climate Change Center, 2006)

Changes in California Snowpack

(California Climate Change Center, 2006)

Changes in Vegetation Cover and Forest Yields

Forest Yield = amount of timber products from a growing forest

(California Climate Change Center, 2006)

Wildfire Frequency in California

(California Climate Change Center, 2006)

Alpine Plant SpeciesAlpine and subalpine ecosystems are the most fragile and threatened-have limited opportunity to move “up slope”-will decline by as much as 60-80%