Managing Water Resources in the West under Conditions of Climate Uncertainty : A Proceedings

MANAGING WATER RESOURCES IN THE WEST UNDER CONDITIONS CLIMATE UNCERTAINTY -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Overview -- SHARING WATER RESOURCES -- THE SCIENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND CLIMATE VARIABILITY -- Implications of Climate Variability for Management -- MANAGEMENT RESPONSES TO CLIMATE VARIABILITY -- PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN WATER RESOURCE DECISIONMAKING -- MANAGING WESTERN WATER UNDER PRESENT VARIABILITY AND FOR AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE -- Research, Development, and Institutional Issues -- Opportunities for the Bureau of Reclamation -- REFERENCES -- 2 Sharing Water Resources with Future Generations -- RELATING THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PRESENT GENERATION TO OTHER GENERATIONS AND TO THE NATURAL SYSTEM -- PRINCIPLES OF INTERGENERATIONAL EQUITY -- AN INTERGENERATIONAL APPROACH TO WATER RESOURCE PROBLEMS -- Water Resource Problems with Intergenerational Impacts -- Applying Intergenerational Principles to Water Resource Problems -- INTERGENERATIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS -- STRATEGIES FOR INCORPORATING INTERGENERATIONAL INTERESTS INTO DECISIONS AFFECTING WATER RESOURCES -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 3 The Science of Climate Change and Climate Variability -- 4 Primer on Climate Change -- INTRODUCTION -- THE BASIS FOR CONCERN ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE -- THE CLIMATE SYSTEM AND THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT -- HOW MUCH WILL OUR HOUSE WARM UP? -- CONSTRAINING POSSIBLE FUTURES THROUGH MODELS -- PRESENT GUIDANCE FROM CLIMATE MODELS AND OTHER ARGUMENTS CONCERNING WESTERN WATER -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 5 Climate Change and Climate Variability: The Climate Record -- INTRODUCTION -- THE POTENTIAL FOR GLOBAL WARMING -- THE 1988 DROUGHT -- WEATHER VERSUS CLIMATE -- CLIMATE OBSERVATIONS -- Surface Temperatures -- Precipitation -- MAJOR FINDINGS FROM THE OBSERVATIONAL RECORD -- COMPARISON WITH MODEL RESULTS FOR GREENHOUSE GAS INCREASES.