Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University
of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much
faster than the
global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius
warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part
of the U.S. compared to the world
as a whole.
Now, with regional climates shifting
as a
result of global warming, it is unclear just how far — and how
fast — organisms will need to travel to keep up with moving climates.