Today the Washington Post published a great article on the Climate Change and how it's effects can already be felt.
2 Degrees Beyond the Limit: extreme climate change has arrived in America
As most of us here are aware, Climate Change is not an issue for the future it's an issue for RIGHT NOW.
Key findings:
My wife and I have been having discussions lately about what we can do to carry our weight. I think I'm going to have to pull the trigger and do the unthinkable: drastically cut down on my meat consumption.
2 Degrees Beyond the Limit: extreme climate change has arrived in America
As most of us here are aware, Climate Change is not an issue for the future it's an issue for RIGHT NOW.
Key findings:
- Climate change is here but it's impacts are uneven, most of the country has warmed since 1895, but "hot spots" of areas that have seen a 2+ degree Celsius dot the country
- These hot spots are concentrated in the Northeast, Rockies, and West Coast
- Places like New Jersey and Rhode Island are warming the fastest of the lower 48, winters are getting warmer and shorter
- Beaches in Rhode Island are losing up to 3 feet to erosion every year, sometimes more
- The warming temperatures in the Rockies are going to have repercussions on snow pack/melt and thus freshwater supplies for California and Arizona
My wife and I have been having discussions lately about what we can do to carry our weight. I think I'm going to have to pull the trigger and do the unthinkable: drastically cut down on my meat consumption.