The National Climate Assessment and North Carolina
The climate has changed, it is continuing to change and human activity is the leading contributor to that change in the last 50 years. So says the 2014 National Climate Assessment, a summary of climate change impacts in the United States authored by more than 300 experts.
Posted — UpdatedMoreover, the report concludes that, even with aggressive reductions in carbon emissions, we will likely continue to see warming across the globe, changes in North Carolina’s weather patterns and climate-related impacts on our lives.
The report also documents reductions in arctic sea ice, the mass of ice over Antarctica and in glacial ice content elsewhere, as well as changes in patterns of extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, snowstorms and hurricanes. It concludes with a wide range of response strategies, including mitigation (e.g., reducing carbon emissions) and adaptation techniques.
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