Webinar: Stormy Weather - Climate Resiliency for Northwest Cities/Utilities July 19
Wednesday, July 19, 2017, 11:20 AM - 1:00 PM PDT
Category: PNCWA Training & Events (not including Annual Conferences)
Stormy Weather - Climate Resiliency for Northwest Cities/Utilities
July 19, Sponsored by the PNCWA Sustainability Committee. The webinar is no cost for PNCWA members, PNCWA section members, and WEF-UPP organization employees, and $50 for nonmembers,
.2 CEUs requested.
This PNCWA webinar will cover how cities can respond to climate change. Click here for speaker bios and full topic abstracts (PDF).
1. Intro to Climate Change (20 mins)
- How do you know what’s true? Reference the PNCWA Climate Change Position Paper
Speaker: Cynthia Bratz, P.E., Tetra Tech, Sustainability Committee Chair
- This presentation will include a description of sources of information regarding climate change, including news releases and climate change assessment reports. It will include an analysis of science compared to beliefs and popular opinion. It will include a description of the PNCWA Climate Change Position Paper, which was prepared by the Sustainability Committee in 2015. Cyndy will introduce Matt Glazewski, who will present the primary portion of this section of the webinar.
- State of the Science
Speaker: Matt Glazewski, Portland Community College
- This presentation will describe current understanding on climate change from a science perspective, and will describe global and national climate assessment reports. It will discuss consensus among climate researchers and will focus on climate change impacts in the Pacific Northwest and projections to the year 2100 using current knowledge and modeling techniques.
2. How Does It Affect Us? (15 mins) Speaker: Alice Brawley-Chesworth, P.E., City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services
- We all know that climate change will impact more than just air temperature. We can expect impacts to the technical, biological, and social systems in our communities, so it will be important to think broadly when planning for the future. This talk will outline what we need to think about as water professionals when planning for climate change, and also outline some ways to determine which might be your community’s biggest challenges.
3. What Can We Do About It?
4. Why Should We Do Something About It? (15 mins)
- What Are We in for the Long Haul? Modeling through 2099
- Reducing GHG Emissions, Bulletproofing Infrastructure to Handle More Extreme Future Events
Speaker: Matt Glazewski, Portland Community College
- This presentation will summarize the high point from each of the previous presentations, describe regional modeling efforts aimed at understanding climate change in the Northwest, and suggest prioritization methods to utilize in the areas of Greenhouse Gas Emissions reductions, and infrastructure preparedness.
Register at http://bit.ly/Register-PNCWA_Resiliency_webinar_07-19-17
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