NECIA climate projections found that over the next several decades, temperatures across the Northeast will rise 2.5°F to 4°F in winter and 1.5°F to 3.5°F in summer regardless of the emissions choices we make now (due to heat-trapping emissions released in the recent past). By mid-century and beyond, however, today’s emissions choices generate starkly different climate futures.

Confronting climate change in the U.S. Northeast

By late this century, under the higher-emissions scenario:

The Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA) released their report (full report is 160 pages), "Confronting Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast: Science, Impacts, and Solutions", in July 2007.  NECIA is a collaboration between the Union of Concerned Scientist and a team of more than 50 independent scientists and economists from the northeast. Download PDF