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Climate Change Science Presentation What is climate change?

What is climate?
What is climate change?
What is the "greenhouse effect"?
What are the main greenhouse gases and how have they increased?
What are the main drivers of climate change?

How are future climates estimated? What are the human effects on the atmosphere and climate?

How good is the evidence of climate change?

What climate change has occurred in the past in Saskatchewan and in Canada?

Did you know that the climate is always changing, but that the recent warming is likely unprecedented?
What temperature changes have occurred in the past decades?
How has the timing of spring and autumn changed?
How have low temperatures changed in places such as Saskatoon?
What recent precipitation trends have occurred?
How has the length of the snow-cover season changed?
How sound is this information? How have errors been considered?

What possible future climate changes could occur in Saskatchewan and in Canada?

How will temperature change in future decades?
How will precipitation change in future decades?
What changes in extreme precipitation events are expected?
Would you like to watch a movie of future possible temperature changes to 2100?

What would these climate changes mean for Saskatchewan, for our water resources, agriculture, forests, cities, energy sector, and health? What other links and resources would be useful?

PARC - Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative - www.parc.ca
IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - www.ipcc.ch/
NRCan (Canada's climate change plan website) - http://climatechange.nrcan.gc.ca/
Environment Canada - www.ec.gc.ca/climate/home-e.html
SRC, including "But it's a Dry Cold: Weathering the Canadian Prairies" - www.src.sk.ca