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How has/is/will climate change impact (ed)/ing people living in the Western US?

How has/is/will climate change impact (ed)/ing people living in the Western US?. What’s the Problem?. Urban Sprawl in the LV Valley. Changing Ecosystems. http://www.kqed.org/quest/radio/disappearing-plants. How has/is/will climate change impact (ed)/ing people living in the Western US?.

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How has/is/will climate change impact (ed)/ing people living in the Western US?

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  1. How has/is/will climate changeimpact(ed)/ing people livingin the Western US?

  2. What’s the Problem?

  3. Urban Sprawl in the LV Valley

  4. Changing Ecosystems http://www.kqed.org/quest/radio/disappearing-plants

  5. How has/is/will climate changeimpact(ed)/ingpeople livingin the Western US?

  6. What’s the Question? Knowing and Predicting

  7. What’s the Question? Knowing and Predicting Forecasting

  8. Weather vs. Climate • Weather - a set of all the phenomena occurring in a given atmosphere at a given time. • Climate – the average set of all phenomena occurring in a given atmosphere over periods of at least 30 years.

  9. Can we?

  10. Scientific Issues • Systems Thinking • Human nature • Silos • Socio-political influences • Power • Modeling • Consensus • Tools • Data • Quality and Integrity • Storage • Complexity

  11. Data vs. Information • Data - Raw, unprocessed measurements. • Information - Data + Context

  12. Spatial vs. Temporal Spatial data - Data that that is linked to locations in geographic space, usually via features on a map. Temporal data - Data that can be linked to a certain time or period between two moments in time.

  13. Work Products • 5-DIE Word (template provided) • 5-DIE EXE (template provided) • 10-Item, Multiple Choice Test • DoK level 2 or above

  14. Check-Out • Where we are… • Word Doc • EXE File • Assessment • What we need… • What we’ll be doing for next time… • Blog post adding the current version of all documents.

  15. Check-In • Where we are… • Word Doc • EXE File • Assessment • What we need…

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