A new mapping project from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania illustrates the consequences of inaction on climate change.
Sarah Holder shares the work of researchers at the McHarg Center for Urban Ecology at the University of Pennsylvania to map the expected effects of climate change in the United States, calling it the 2100 Project: An Atlas for a Green New Deal.
"The website use a variety of projected and current data sources to sketch out the country’s possible fate, displaying its geography in economic, ecological, agricultural, and ideological terms," explains Holder.
Billy Fleming, the director of the McHarg Center, is quoted in the article saying that the project proves that it’s not to late to make a fundamental difference in the losses the country will experience as the effects of climate change take shape.
The article includes a few examples of maps from the project, on subjects like annual average temperature, mortality, economic effects, and more.
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