SNRE’s Bierbaum part of White House climate event Tuesday

Professor Rosina Bierbaum was part of an expert panel Tuesday at a White House event highlighting the release of the latest National Climate Assessment.

The new report states that the impacts of climate change are already being felt and are expected to become increasingly disruptive across the nation throughout this century and beyond.

“Climate change is already happening, and no matter how much we ultimately control the emission of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, we also need to plan and manage the changes that are already underway, as well as those yet to come,” said Bierbaum, professor of natural resources and environment at the School of Natural Resources, and environmental health sciences at the School of Public Health.

Bierbaum is a lead convening author of the report’s chapter on climate change adaptation.

At the White House event, Bierbaum was part of a panel on “Using Climate Change Information.”

U-M aquatic ecologist Don Scavia, director of the Graham Sustainability Institute, is a lead convening author of the report’s Midwest chapter. Dan Brown, professor of natural resources and environment, is a lead convening author of the chapter on changes in land use and land cover. Doctoral student Missy Stults is a contributing author on the adaptation chapter.

In addition, Bierbaum and Marie O’Neill, associate professor of environmental health sciences and epidemiology at the School of Public Health, serve on the 60-person advisory committee that oversaw development of the latest National Climate Assessment, the third since 2000.

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