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Pub. Date
2021-
Description
Our climate future is in the hands of our towns and cities. Local level policy has the power to impact our infrastructure, transportation, air quality, job development, equity and energy future. Our Rebuild and Re-energize Local Government Toolkit is intended to empower communities by providing on the ground examples of innovative programs and policy throughout Colorado. This toolkit will also feature additional resources and funding for communities...
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2007.
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The research objective for the Climate Action Database (CAD) was to compile proposals relating to the issue of climate change. These proposals include documents (and/or proposals embedded in such documents) that call for U.S. federal policy changes with respect to climate change and/or related to renewable energy policy changes.
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Information volume no. 109
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
"An underlying assumption of traditional hydrologic frequency analysis is that climate, and hence the frequency of hydrologic events, is stationary, or unchanging over time. A stationary series is relatively easy to forecast: one simply predicts that statistical properties will be the same in the future as they have been in the past. Anthropogenic climate change and better understanding of decadal and multi-decadal climate variability present a...
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Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Climate variability and change, including drought, affects multiple sectors, from agriculture to transportation, but the Colorado Climate Preparedness Project (CCPP) study especially found a gap in, and demand for, more information about climate impacts in the outdoor recreation sector.
45) Willodeen
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
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When the annual migration of hummingbears, a source of local pride and income, dwindles and no one knows why, Willodeen, armed with a magical birthday gift, speaks up for the animals she loves and vows to uncover this mystery.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
A significant body of academic research indicates that climate change is having a profound effect on the hydrology of the Colorado River Basin and those water systems dependent upon the river. In this study, we trace how the subject of climate change is featured in media coverage of Colorado River Basin water issues, acknowledging the salient role of the media in shaping public understanding and sentiment.
48) Adaptation in the face of environmental change: supporting information for BLM planning in Colorado
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In 2013, the Colorado office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) contacted the Colorado Natural Heritage Program (CNHP) for assistance in conducting a climate change vulnerability assessment to help focus attention on the highest priority species and habitats. In 2015, CNHP completed vulnerability assessments for 98 species and 20 ecological systems. That assessment highlighted two clear priorities for BLM management in Colorado: pinyon-juniper...
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Pub. Date
2008.
Description
This memo presents the results of a literature search conducted in May-June 2007 as a preliminary step toward the study of how climate change-induced variations in the hydrograph (i.e. earlier snowmelt and peak flows) may impact the temporal elements of water rights.
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Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Of the most costly natural hazards for which federal, state and local planners must prepare (like earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods), the impacts of drought have been the least well measured. Yet drought vulnerability and impacts drive drought response policy and there are weaknesses in our ability to judge vulnerability and impacts.
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In accessible journalistic prose, author Lynas distills what environmental scientists predict about the consequences of human pollution for the next hundred years, degree by degree. At 1 degree Celsius, most coral reefs and many mountain glaciers will be lost. A 3-degree rise would spell the collapse of the Amazon rainforest, disappearance of Greenland's ice sheet, and the creation of deserts across the Midwestern United States and southern Africa....
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Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Unwanted climate change is resulting from the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) into the atmosphere by human activity. To avoid the serious and potentially catastrophic environmental, economic and health consequences associated with an increasing global temperature, global emissions of GHGs must be slowed, stopped and reduced. Emission reductions will require changes in energy policy, sustainable development, as well as market-based policies for...
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The author points out that core questions about the way the climate is responding to our influence and what the impacts will be remain largely unanswered. He provides insights and perspective free from political agendas, dispels popular myths, and unveils little-known truths. He points out that the models we use to predict the future aren't able to accurately describe the climate of the past, suggesting they are deeply flawed.
56) Flight Behavior
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Description
Set in the present day in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee, this novel tells the story of Dellarobia Turnbow, a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant and marrying at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending to small children on a failing farm, oppressed by poverty, isolation and her husband's antagonistic family, she has mitigated her boredom by surrendering to an obsessive...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The 5 million-acre San Juan Region lies in southwest Colorado and is considered part of the Four Corners area. The Colorado Natural Heritage Program tracks 122 plant species within this region. Recently published climate models for the Southern San Juan Region project a median decrease in May precipitation across southwestern Colorado and a 4.3⁰ F increase in average annual temperatures, suggesting drought may become problematic for these species...
