Chairs: James M Byrne, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, Kent Peacock, Univ of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, Simon D Donner, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Brian C O'Neill, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Conveners: James M Byrne, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
Co-conveners: Simon D Donner, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Brian C O'Neill, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Kent Peacock, Univ of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
OSPA Liaisons: Kent Peacock, Univ of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
Quantifying the Benefit of Early Climate Change Mitigation in Avoiding Biodiversity Loss
Rachel Warren1, Jeremy Vanderwal2, Jeff Price3, Justin Welbergen2, Ian M Atkinson4, Julian Ramirez-Villegas5, Timothy Osborn6, Luke Shoo7, Andy Jarvis5, Stephen Williams2 and Jason A. Lowe8, (1)University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, (2)James Cook University, Centre for Tropical Biodiversity and Climate Change, Townsville, Australia, (3)Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Norwich, United Kingdom, (4)James Cook University, eResearch Centre, Townsville, Australia, (5)International Centre for Tropical Agriculture, Cali, Colombia, (6)University of East Anglia, Climatic Research Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, Norwich, United Kingdom, (7)The University of Queensland, School of Biological Sciences, Queensland St Lucia, Australia, (8)University of Reading, MetOffice Hadley Centre, Reading, United Kingdom
Population exposure to heat-related extremes: Demographic change vs climate change
Bryan Jones, CUNY Institute for Demographic Research, New York, NY, United States, Brian C O'Neill, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Claudia Tebaldi, Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States and Keith W Oleson, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
Climate Change: Ethics and Collective Responsibility
M. Bryson Brown, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, Michael E Mann, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Kent Peacock, Univ of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada and Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
CESM-simulated 21st Century Changes in Large Scale Crop Water Requirements and Yields
Samuel Levis1, Andrew Badger2, Beth A Drewniak3, Brian C O'Neill4 and Xiaolin Ren1, (1)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, (3)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Estimating the limits of adaptation from historical behaviour: Insights from the American Climate Prospectus
Amir Jina, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Solomon M Hsiang, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Robert E Kopp III, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, DJ Rasmussen, Rhodium Group, Oakland, CA, United States and James Rising, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, United States
The Effect of Natural Gas Supply on US Renewable Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Christine Shearer, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, John Bistline, Stanford University, Los Altos Hills, CA, United States, Mason Inman, Near Zero, Seattle, WA, United States and Steven J Davis, University California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
From GCM Output to Local Hydrologic and Ecological Impacts: Integrating Climate Change Projections into Conservation Lands
Stuart B Weiss1, Lisa Micheli2, Lorraine E Flint3, Alan L Flint3 and James H Thorne4, (1)Creekside Center for Earth Observation, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)Pepperwood Preserve, Santa Rosa, CA, United States, (3)USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States, (4)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States