Does the Senate really need to confirm 1,200 executive branch jobs? By Brad Plumer By Brad Plumer July 16, 2013 Follow @bradplumer The Senate has been bickering all day over how to confirm President Obama's nominees for various executive-branch positions.
The climate calculated by the GCM is used as input at the edges of the RCM for factors such as temperature and wind. RCMs can then resolve the local impacts given small scale information about orography (land height) and land use, giving weather and climate information at resolutions as fine as 50 or 25km.
Regional impacts of climate change (droughts, severe storms) What climate models predict: temperature rise, sea level rise, maxing out of carbon uptake by ecosystems, drought, severe storms, crop failures, loss of fresh water, impact on human health, extinction of species. GDP will decrease by 1-5% for each 7.2 degree F rise in temperature.