Videos from seminar on Climate Change available on SNR site

Videos from the one-day climage change seminar in early June are available at snr.unl.edu.
Videos from the one-day climage change seminar in early June are available at snr.unl.edu.

In April 2016, the Nebraska legislature passed resolution LR 455 that established a committee composed of state senators to examine the impacts of climate change and to determine appropriate actions by the State of Nebraska. The goal of this committee is to examine issues related to the impacts of climate change on the state of Nebraska and its residents, including assessments of vulnerability, risks and economic impacts.
The committee also is to examine opportunities, including methods of producing food, generating power, or protecting land and water, that can be used to adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change and that will provide jobs and economic benefits to Nebraskans. The expected outcome of this study is to lead to the development of a Nebraska Climate Action Plan.
In response to LR 455, Don Wilhite, professor of applied climate science with the School of Natural Resources, worked in cooperation with Sen. Ken Haar’s office to organize a one-day seminar June 1 at the Nebraska Innovation Campus to familiarize senators on the science and implications of climate change on the state. In addition to members of the committee, other senators participated in the discussion.
“Our goal was to provide scientific information to the state senators on the science of climate change, projections of future changes, impacts on the state and appropriate next step,” Wilhite said. “We also wanted to illustrate the outcomes from some of the sector-based roundtables that were held during the fall of 2015 and the climate-related resources that are available at UNL.”
As part of the agenda, short presentations were given by the National Drought Mitigation Center, Nebraska State Climate Office, High Plains Regional Climate Center, the Daugherty Water for Food Institute, the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, UNMC’s College of Public Health and Nebraska Extension. The entire day’s presentations and discussions were recorded and are available on SNR’s climate change website, go.unl.edu/climateimpactsseminar.
These presentations were informative and will assist members of the committee, as well as those in the community, in learning more about the university’s capacity on climate change science.

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More details at: http://go.unl.edu/rsv3