Description
Main TitleConfronting Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast: Science, Impacts, and Solutions
PublisherUnion of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
Date Created2007
Subject (Geographic)New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania
Subject (Geographic - Hierarchical)
Country: United States
State: New Jersey
Subject (Topical)agriculture; air pollution; climate; climate change; coastal zone; environmental data; environmental monitoring; fisheries; forests; human health; industry; land; pollution; global warming; Union for Concerned Scientists; energy efficient; energy efficiency; emissions; seasons; weather; flood; Northeast United States; Connecticut; Maine; Massachusetts; New Hampshire; Rhode Island; Vermont
DescriptionThis is 2007 report on climate change in the Northeast U.S. by the northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA) Synthesis Team. In October 2006, the NECIA released a report titled Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast, the product of a collaborative research effort that drew on recent advances in climate modeling to assess how global warming may further affect the Northeast's climate. Using projections from three state-of-the-art global climate models, the report compared the types and magnitude of climate changes that will result from two different scenarios of future heat-trapping emissions. The first (the higher-emissions scenario) is a future where people - individuals, communities, businesses, states, and nations - allow emissions to continue growing rapidly, and the second (the lower-emissions scenario) is one in which societies choose to rely less on fossil fuels and adopt more resource-efficient technologies. This 2007 report builds upon and extends these findings. NECIA collaborators have used the NECIA climate projections to assess the impacts of these two very different future Northeast climates on vital aspects of the region's life and economy: coastal areas, marine fisheries, forests, agriculture, winter recreation, and human health. They also describe actions that can be taken today in the Northeast to reduce emissions and help avoid the most severe impacts of global warming and to adapt to the unavoidable changes that past emissions have already set in motion.
NotePrepared by the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment Synthesis Team (NECIA)
NoteNECIA is collaborative effort between the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and a team of independent experts
NotePurpose: To 2007 report the findings of the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA)
Data Life Cycle Event(s)
Date: 2008-03-04 00:00:00.0
Creator: Karen Hanson
Organization NameNew Jersey Environmental Digital Library
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