Projected Climate Change Impacts in California

The Consequences of Increasing Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases

Free public lecture by Tom Suchanek, lead scientist and climate change coordinator of the US Geological Survey's Western Ecological Research Center

How will decisions that the global community makes about emissions affect the future of the western U.S.?

What might changes in atmospheric CO2 concentrations mean to human land use and environmental systems throughout California and the Bay Area?

How is rising sea level likely to affect coastal human communities and vulnerable ecological systems along the Pacific coast?

What might Sierra snowpack, sensitive fire regimes, and species distributions look like in our children's and grandchildren's generations?

US Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park 94025. Lecture is in Building 3, Conference Room A.