Climate Change in the US Gulf Coast Region

The Union of Concerned Scientists is pleased to announce the release of an information-packed, colorful, interactive web feature about climate change impacts in the Gulf Coast region of the United States.

We invite you to explore this site at http://www.ucsusa.org/gulf.

This web feature is based on the widely acclaimed report, "Confronting Climate Change in the Gulf Coast Region: Prospects for Sustaining our Ecological Heritage." This comprehensive study by leading university and government scientists in the Gulf States was released last fall by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and the Ecological Society of America (ESA). It concluded that the combined impacts of global warming and pressure from human activities pose serious challenges to the Gulf Coast, but that there are steps that we can take today to protect this region.

The site contains a wealth of information on climate change impacts and solutions for people who live in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.One feature examines the water cycle and how humans interact with it along the Gulf Coast. A second explores the consequences of sea-level rise, and a third investigates how individual lives may be impacted by climate change.

The web site also has multi-page summaries of the potential impacts on the five Gulf States and on several unique and special places in the Gulf region, such as the Everglades, the Apalachicola Bay System, Big Thicket, Laguna Madre, and the Mississippi Delta.

Please visit this new feature at http://www.ucsusa.org/gulf.

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If you have questions about UCS or ESA work in the Gulf Coast region or about other things UCS works on, please write to ucs@ucsusa.org.