Thursday, September 22, 2005

Non-profit Snowpack Report

From the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization press release: "At a news conference today at the offices of Denver Water, the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization (RMCO) released a report documenting that climate disruption is already underway in the West."

The full text of the report is available online.
Less Snow, Less Water: Climate Disruption in the West.

Some of the sources from the non-profit's report come from the federal government, including:
  • Water 2025 from the Department of the Interior
  • Water: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability & Change for the Water Resources of the United States from the U.S. Global Change Research Program
  • Rocky Mountain/Great Basin Regional Climate Change Assessment written for the U.S. Global Change Research Program
  • Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions from the National Academies Press
  • U.S. Temperature and Precipitation Trends from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  • Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2003 from the Energy Information Administration (EIA)

    Source: "'Less Snow' brings the message home." Missoulian September 22, 2005. B1.
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