MET 112 Global Climate Change- Lecture 13a 30 April 2009Slide 2Slide 3Slide 4Slide 5Slide 6Slide 7Slide 8MET 112 Global Climate Change- Lecture 13a30 April 2009Observations and PredictionsDr. Craig ClementsSan Jose State UniversityTemperature 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 YieldsForest 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
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