UW-Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies Conference

Potential Climate Impacts on the Midwest: The U.S. Climate Impacts Assessment

DON WUEBBLES
The Harry E. Preble Professor
of Atmospheric Sciences
School of Earth, Society, and Environment
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
University of Illinois

Monday, April 5, 2010
3:30 P.M.
Room AB20, Weeks Hall
1215 W. Dayton St.

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Concern about climate change is a global problem, but its impacts occur at the local and regional scale. Regional integrated
climate assessments are increasingly viewed as critical to sound climate policy. The assessment of Global Climate Change
Impacts in the United States includes analyses of the potential climate change impacts that will affect the Midwest, including
issues relating to water resources, energy supply and use, transportation, agriculture, ecosystems, human health and society
(e.g., urban infrastructure). These findings will be discussed in this presentation.