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here is honored with your presence. so i appreciate youll do double duty, thats not only moderating today, but tomorrow with our action plan. with that, jeff, take it away. >> thank you very much, susan. its a pleasure to be here and we like to think of ourselves as metropolitan and people in san francisco we like to say they see us, as the good guys. just a few minutes before i introduce the panels a couple of things i thought i would touch on briefly from this mornings presentation, ...

ye, is drawn to the out liars going up and theres this number of a simulations that have gone down a little bit by ten percent or so. if you twisted my arm and said whats more likely for california, wetter or dryer in the future. first of all i would say our precipitation is characterized to a large extent by variability like weve always seen. weve become accustomed to really wet periods. 1978 through 1986. and try periods. 1994 and sometimes we actually get a normal year but seems lik...

number of experts came and we adopted a number of policies on how to start planning for global warming. it was pragmatic and the policies were adopted unanimously. i or my agency runs the gamut in terms of political areas. very liberal areas like santa monica to quite conservative to parts of orange county and several areas throughout our entire service area. it was never partisan but what we need to do as an issue. i find it interesting this is interesting but in utilities issues, its...

but also retrospectively. run back. they can replicate what weve seen and thats one of the tests of climate models and what we see is, without a doubt, every climate model is warming. this is the 0 line today is todays so we took the actual temperature out of it. well call that 0 the departure from todays level. and this is 2100, so we can see here are those numbers that you heard earlier in the day rises the temperatures from 2 degrees celsius to more than 7 for california. this is th...