Green Notes
Report: Climate change threatens our national parks
North Carolina's Cape Hatteras National Seashore and 24 other national parks face several climate-related threats, according to a report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization. In particular, rising sea levels caused by global warming could degrade and fragment the Cape Hatteras seashore. Cape Lookout and Wright Brothers National Memorial are also vulnerable to higher seas and coastal storms, according to the report.
This report's claims, like other recent assessments of the potential effects of global warming, are not suprising, but they do put a "face," so to speak, on what assets North Carolinians could lose if the scientific forecasts become reality.
The top climate-related risk outlined in the report include: loss of snow and water, rising seas, more extreme weather, loss of plants and wildlife, and more pollution. The groups remedies: enacting comprehensive clean energy legislation, including reducing carbon pollution by at least 20 percent below current levels by 2020; increasing investment in energy efficiency; and accelerating the development of clean energy technologies.
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