By: Liz Allen I have fond memories of being a 3rd grader in the early 90s reading Choose Your Own Adventure books with my friends while seated inside a tractor tire at my Oregon elementary school’s playground. The Choose Your Own Adventure series was popular in school libraries throughout the 80s and 90s because the […]
By CIRCulator Editorial Staff Reprinted from: The Climate CIRCulator NUMERICAL models of the climate system continue to evolve and improve, incorporating more and more elements that influence climate. Two important directions of improvement are finer spatial resolution (being able to drill down to smaller and smaller areas), and representations of that most unpredictable aspect of […]
By Liz Allen No one can definitively predict how human behavior and decision-making will affect greenhouse gas emissions on a global scale. Considering human actions, however, is key to understanding what future climate change impacts may occur. This is why developing scenarios based on a range of different storylines about how society might change in […]
By: Liz Allen When we investigate the future of agriculture under climate change, we think in terms of scenarios. Generally speaking, a scenario is a collection of assumptions about future conditions and trends. In some climate impact models, scenarios are complex and clearly defined, beginning with storylines that describe how various social, economic and environmental […]