by Karrigan Bork | Oct 7, 2021 | climate change, Environmental Law
Professors Ruhl and Craig paint a vision of a 4ºC world marked by “discontinuous and often unpredictable transformation.” Nature, from climate to ecosystems to species, is hard to predict in the best of times. It’s a wild beast in a 4ºC world. This means that we will...
by Kevin Lynch, Shi-Ling Hsu and Karrigan Bork | Oct 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Western water rights reflect a short and stable climate history, but that period of stability is ending. Looming climate change of 4°C will produce not only higher temperatures, but decreased snowpack, shifts in runoff patterns, and the dramatic shrinkage of giant...