Projected Climate Change and Variability and Their Impact on the Canadian Rocky Mountains - Impact of Global Changes on Mountains: Responses and Adaptation - page 407

Figure 18.5. During El Nino phase of the ENSO cycle, warmer-than-usual temperature
regime dominates the Canadian Rocky Mountain regions. The opposite is true during the
La Nina phase, producing above-normal amount of precipitation in the southern regions of
the Canadian Rocky Mountains (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA): http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/ensocycle/nawinter.
shtml).
Climate Change Impact in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
A summary of the fi nal agreement which came out of the UN Conference
on Environment and Development (UNCED) that took place in 1992 states,
in part, that: