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Chris West, Director, UK Climate Impacts Programme
UKCIP08 Scenarios, Climate Change Impacts in Scotland, and
Adapting to the Impacts
Sustainable Development Commission for Scotland,
29 October 2008, Edinburgh
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Scenarios Background UK climate scenarios produced since 1991 UKCIP published climate scenarios in 1998 and 2002 Each became more detailed, building upon:
improved scientific knowledge & computing power stakeholder requirements
Each represented best science at that time
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Uses of Climate Models
Climate model
Predictions ProjectionsForecasts
Grounding in reality
Huge set of assumptions
Acknowledgement of uncertainties
Understanding
Testing against data
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Uses of Climate Models
Climate model
Predictions ProjectionsForecasts
Grounding in reality
Huge set of assumptions
Acknowledge all uncertainties
Understanding
Testing against data
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What Users wanted from UKCIP08
Improved consideration and quantification of associated uncertainties – probabilistic What users wanted in UKCIP08 information
Improved spatial and temporal detail
Improved accessibility (dedicated online user interface)
More information about climate change in the marine environment
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VERY UNLIKELY LIKELY VERY UNLIKELY
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Some climate variable
Probability
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• 25km grid
• Pre-defined areas
•Administrative
•River basins
• Observed climate datasets including daily max and min temperature
• Weather Generator to provide statistical expressions of future daily conditions consistent with the climate projections
•More time periods
Greater spatial & temporal detail
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Components of UKCIP08
Probabilistic climate projections
Information on future climate, provided in probabilistic terms
Probabilistic climate projections
Information on future climate, provided in probabilistic terms
Historical climate information
Information on present UK climate and recent trends, based on observations
Historical climate information
Information on present UK climate and recent trends, based on observations
Marine projections
Information on modelled future changes below the surface of sea areas around UK
Marine projections
Information on modelled future changes below the surface of sea areas around UK
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UKCIP08 productsA set of high-level headline messages will give a national overview of the main changes described by UKCIP08
Reports including:• User guidance• Climate trends• Probabilistic changes of climate• Marine Projections• Summary Report• Pre-prepared maps and graphs
Individual maps, probabilistic plots (PDFs, CDFs), plume diagrams, etc
Customised data products such as GIS-format files and sampled projections to input into impact models
It will also provide access to an integrated Weather Generator
The UKCIP08 User Interface will allow users to create:
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Supporting the use of UKCIP08
Training
Have completed a series of awareness workshops; training material on our website
Post-launch training events – big programme of familiarisation and learning workshops and e-learning support – watch this space!
Worked examples
Set up using dummy data for now; currently being reviewed – will be updated once real data is available
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UKCIP and UKCIP08
UKCIP is the UK Climate Impacts Programme www.ukcip.org.uk
UKCIP08 are the climate scenarios, published by UKCIP
More information is available at UKCIP’s Scenarios Gateway www.ukcip08.net
UKCIP08 will be launched in the Spring
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Rainfall and rain days 1971-2000
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Trend in total rainfall 1961-2006
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Trend in rain days 1961-2006
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Mean temperature
1971-90 mean 1961-2000 rise
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Impacts in Scotland
• Not all negative – some opportunities
• Opportunities may need work to be realised
• Impacts being discovered now
• Persisting uncertainties
• Reactive adaptation pathways needed
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Climate Change
Human Beings
Mitigation
Adaptation
Causation
Impacts
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Climate change responses
Not alternatives!
Response
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Mitigate Adapt
Resemble
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Public health Medical
treatment
Benefit: Global, deferred Local,
immediate
Concept: Easy Hard
Slope: Increases Eases
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Balanced responses
1. The climate change we expect in the next 30-40 years will be due to our past greenhouse gas emissions.
2. Climate change later this century is being determined by the emissions we allow now.
3. We need to alter our way of life so that we can both:
• adapt to the changes that are already in the climate system….
• limit our future greenhouse gas emissions.
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Need for a balance between….
Mitigation & Adaptation
Present vulnerability & Future impacts
Changes in extremes &Steady climate change
Climate information & System information
“predict, optimise, relax”
&“assess, hedge, review”
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Present Climate
• Are we well-adapted to the present?
• Is perfect adaptation possible? – desirable?
• Do we manage present climate risks adequately?
• Part of adapting to climate change is managing the extremes of the present climate
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Do we notice the weather?
Yes
Farmers
Sailors
Operators
No
Boards
Directors
Finance Officers
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“predict, optimise, relax” *
Focus on Climate Change – assumes “today” is OK
Led by physical science model developers
Uncertainty remains a barrier to decision-making
Climate remains a separate issue
Decision-makers will always need better data
* Thanks to Lenny Smith
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“assess, hedge, review” *
Focus on Climate Risks –assumes “today” needs
attention
Led by decision-makers
Assess and manage current risks, then turn to future
Uncertainty is made explicit and addressed
Climate easier to mainstream into everyday
Immediate benefits to “day job”* Thanks to Lenny Smith
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1. Include the hard to cost impacts of what you do to the environment in your plans
2. Be kind to the environment – you may need it one day
3. Address the needs of today while at the same time not compromising the needs of tomorrow
4. Keep on doing business despite the environment’s impacts on what you do
5. The environment, through climate change, has the power to shut you down – deal with it!
Sustainability
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Sustainable Adaptation
Don’t transfer risk to:
Others in society
The natural environment
The future
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Adaptation in Government
Research on Impacts and Adaptation is funded by Defra (CEOSA) on behalf of Devolved Administrations.
Defra’s new Adapting to Climate Change Programme (ACC) deals with policy – remit covers only England.
UKCIP budget comes from both these sources.
Some of CEOSA has moved to DECC, but domestic adaptation research will join ACC within Defra
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• PFI is intended to shift financial risk to private sector (better
at managing it?)
• PFI contracts will see significant climate change.
• PFI can be a mechanism for managing climate risk.
• BUT risks must be identified, assigned, and costed.
• Public sector failure? business opportunity?
Private Finance and Climate Risk
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