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ALIMAR to host Climate Change presentation |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
Event highlights include adaptation procedures, guiding principles
How will climate change affect the Eastern Sierra? Closer to home, how will it affect individual Sierra residents? Policymakers, conservation leaders and the general public are invited to get information and answers at a Climate Change presentation on Monday, April 14, at 5 p.m. in the Mammoth Lakes Community Center on Forest Trail.
Hosted by the Andrea Lawrence Institute for Mountains and Rivers (ALIMAR), the event will feature presenter Marion J. Gee, an AmeriCorps member serving with the Sierra Nevada Alliance. “Currently, there are hundreds of resource planning processes at work that will affect the future of the Sierra, but almost none are taking climate change into account," Gee said.
"Everyone’s talking about mitigation," Gee said, "but we also need strategies for dealing with the climate change that’s now inevitable." Even under the best scenarios for emissions reduction, many climatologists have predicted the Eastern Sierra snowpack could decline by 25 percent, perhaps as much as 40 percent. “Adapting to such change is critical,” Gee said.
In addition to emphasizing adaptation, the presentation will offer seven guiding principles that resource planners can incorporate into their resource management. The event will last about an hour, with time for questions and answers.
Those unable to attend the April 14 presentation can hear a shorter version at the Sierra Club meeting on Tuesday, April 15, 7–7:30 p.m., in the Crowley Lake Community Center, next to the Crowley Lake Store. -ALIMAR
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 17 April 2008 )
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