Climate change in the Canadian Columbia basin

Climate Change in the Canadian Columbia Basin Starting the Dialogue Foreword This project was commissioned by the Water Initiatives Program of the Columbia Basin Trust with the assistance of the Pacific Climate Change Impact Consortium from the University of Victoria and a number of other scientific researchers. [...] In response to these questions and concerns, the Water Initiatives Program of the Columbia Basin Trust contracted the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium at the University of Victoria in 2006 to work with a number of climate scientists to analyze climate change impacts in the geographic area encompassed by the Columbia Basin Trust Act. [...] This area, defined as that part of the drainage of the Columbia River in Canada affected by the Columbia River Treaty of 1964, is bounded by the Monashee Mountains on the west and the Rockies on the east, hereafter referred to as the Basin. [...] The study, A Preliminary Assessment of Climate Trends, Variability and Change in the Canadian Portion of the Columbia Basin – Focusing on Water Resources, concluded that the climate of this part of the Columbia Basin has been and will continue to change in ways that will alter the way people derive their livelihood in the Basin. [...] The current climate of the Basin, and indeed of the entire Earth, is maintained through a delicate balance … 3 What is Happening to the Climate in the Columbia Basin?