Because global warming is global, it may be easy to think it’s not happening here, or that its effects are so far in the future they won’t effect us.
But the National Climate Assessment doesn’t offer that kind of comfort. The federal government expects to release the report this week.
It points out that in the Northeast temperatures and precipitation levels are rising. It’s also seem a greater increase in heavy event increase more than any other region in the US.
It also shows that sea-level rise at the Battery in New York City has risen by 8 inches in the past century.
So if there are worse storm, more extreme fluctuations in temperature, more damage to agriculture and the Connecticut shoreline in the decades to come, do not say in 2030 that nobody saw it coming.