Is Global Warming The End Of Winter? Rising Temperatures In The Northeast Could Mean No More Snow

Global warming will cause temperatures in the northeastern part of the United States to rise at a rate faster than that of the global average, the New York Daily News reported Tuesday. That means the international goal of limiting global warming to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit established by the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change will be broken in the region 20 years earlier than the world as a whole.

Ambarish Karmalkar, one of the lead authors of the study and a postdoctoral fellow at the Northeast Climate Science Center, said the rising temperatures would likely result in the northeast witnessing a reduction of snow cover in the coming years. Karmalkar said in an email to the New York Daily News that the significantly higher temperatures during the winters were “considerably higher in the Northeast and that is contributing to the overall higher warming in the region.”

The temperatures in the northeastern region of the U.S. are expected to rise roughly 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit by 2025, the study said. By the time average global temperatures do rise 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, temperatures in the northeastern part of the U.S. will then likely have increased 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the study performed by climate researchers at the University of Massachusetts.

Representatives of 196 nations participated in the 2015 Paris climate change agreements where they established the 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit threshold. Global activists hope to accomplish this goal by adopting green energy alternatives to power sources such as the burning of coal that emit substantial amounts of fossil fuel into the atmosphere.

Scientists in the study said they might be able to prevent temperatures in the region from rising above 3.6 degrees if countries around the globe participate in cutting carbon emissions. Doing so could potentially evade the environmentally catastrophic consequences that include rising sea levels and subsequently, the endangerment of many fish populations.