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July 11, 2007

Report: A forecast without lobster, snow or beaches

Can you imagine Rhode Island with no lobsters in its waters? With winters dominated by much more rain and much less snow? With fruit crops unable to flourish and beaches being washed away?

Those were some of the predictions in a new report issued today by scientists working to localize the predicted consequences of global climate change.

The Cambridge-based Union of Concerned Scientists, which describes itself as the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and safer world, issued a 145-page report called “Confronting Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast – Science, Impacts, and Solutions.”

Read the full story by Journal environment writer Peter B. Lord about the report tomorrow in The Providence Journal and on projo.com.

Find the complete report now at www.climatechoices.org. Read a summary of predicted impact on Rhode Island here.

-- Journal environment writer Peter B. Lord

Posted by Andrea Panciera  at 4:50 PM | Permalink

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