Climate modellers go local to target California's politicians

摘要

A "pioneering" example of a new breed of climate model, designed to plug the gap between academic research and political decision making, has been published. The analysis of California's climate by Katharine Hayhoe and colleagues outlines how conditions in the state will change under two alternative scenarios: one models the state's future under aggressive policies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions; the other predicts its fate without them. The result is an analysis of the implications for heat-related human mortality, the water cycle and agriculture. It is designed to influence the state's policy-makers.