Montana’s Nobel-winning climate scientist Steve Running: Temperatures rising, but predicted precipitation increase uncertain

By 2050, temperatures in Helena could look more like Salt Lake City, a Nobel Prize-winning climate scientist said Monday, with the only remaining question being whether a predicted uptick in winter precipitation will come to fruition.

University of Montana professor Steve Running, who shared a Nobel Prize in 2007 for his work on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, spoke Monday at Last Chance Audubon’s Natural History Lecture Series at the Montana WILD Education Center. This year’s series focuses on wildfire, and Running’s talk ranged from current and predicted impacts of climate change to a few potential solutions as wildfire seasons become longer and hotter.

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