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5. Adaptability of our culture and associated social and political consequences: different <br />sectors have a more flexible mentality with regard to adapting to a changing climate <br />Taryn Hutchins - Cabibi's Group <br />Weren't able to rank top 5 <br />1. Variable streamflow: changes to growing season <br />2. Diversity across all sectors: ecosystems: interconnectedness of systems: sectors <br />are related <br />➢ Water quality issues <br />➢ Higher energy demands, higher costs associated with treating energy plants <br />➢ West slope versus east slope conflicts <br />➢ Need to examine current water allocation system <br />➢ Increase in fires: public health implications, impacts to soil quality and health <br />which would then feed into water quality: cyclical, compounding nature <br />➢ Increasing energy demand <br />Jeff Lukas' Group <br />➢ We don't do a good job of planning right now: planning for an uncertain future! <br />Long -term planning needs to incorporate different scenarios: past no longer <br />reliable <br />➢ Need for increased water banking and storage to balance out supply and <br />demand <br />➢ As runoff timing shifts, and demand timing does not shift: less overlay between <br />the two: Increasing gap in timing, ties back to increase storage <br />➢ Increasing fire danger <br />➢ Wetlands, fisheries, game species: impacts to habitat and carrying capacities <br />➢ Economic and demographic projections will be less certain: less reliability of the <br />past to use as barometer for the future <br />Wrap -Up to Breakout Discussion # 2 <br />➢ Where will populations shift as temperatures increase? <br />➢ What will be the determining factor for shifting populations? Increasing <br />temperatures? Water availability? Economic reasons? <br />