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here is honored with your presence. so i appreciate you'll do double duty, that's not only moderating today, but tomorrow with our action plan. with that, jeff, take it away. >> thank you very much, susan. it's 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, and that's utility reaction verses global warming and we're fairly pragmatic, we look upon them a...

ye, is drawn to the out liars going up and there's this number of a simulations that have gone down a little bit by ten percent or so. if you twisted my arm and said what's 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 we've always seen. we've become accustomed to really wet periods. 1978 through 1986. and try periods. 1994 and sometimes we actually get a normal year but seems like that does not happen too often. but in these model runs there's again this subtle tendency for...

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, it's more how are you prepared. we tend to get our water - we're lucky because we have a diversified wa...

but also retrospectively. run back. they can replicate what we've seen and that's 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. we'll 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 the annual average temperature. precipitation is done in the same fashion down here. my coleague mi...