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9 Initiating, Sustaining, and Evolving Climate Assessment Processes
Pages 51-56

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... described how climate assessments are moving into the utility sector and shared modeling results, calling attention to the importance of incorporating larger systemic changes into climate assessment models. Jennifer Jurado (Broward County government in Florida)
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... Diaz underscored the potential for important dynamics to be missed by imposing a future climate on current conditions, rather than on projected future conditions that incorporate the other nonclimatic factors, and described EPRI's modeling of end-use demands based on both climate change and underlying trends. For example, warming from climate change is understood to increase electricity demand for summer cooling while reducing winter heating demand, yet there are countervailing factors related to improvements in cooling technology and building shell efficiency as well as increased adoption of electric air-source heat pumps due to their increased cost-effectiveness relative to furnace heating.
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... closing the research-assessment loop. RICHARD MOSS, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Richard Moss shared a perspective centered on his leadership of a National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Federal Advisory Committee on Applied Climate Assessment.
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... Some of these specific problems included building weather-ready infrastructure (e.g., transportation and housing) , managing development for future wildfire risk, protecting coastal property from erosion and coastal storms, and protecting vulnerable populations during extreme heat events.
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... He asked whether there was adequate consensus and support for updating standards on resilient infrastructure, and if there were any priorities for filling key gaps. Bedsworth described a California working group on climate smart infrastructure and its guidance document, which does not recommend standards, but does help communities plan responses to needs, including developing their standards.
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... 2017. 2017: Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume I (D.J.
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