MetroWest Climate Solutions: What is the State House Doing About Climate Change? May 30th 7 p.m.
What is the State House Doing About Climate Change? Thursday, May 30, 7 PM Zoom Massachusetts has a mandate to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2050. Legislators hope to pass a major climate and energy bill, which would address the electrification of many carbon-intensive sectors such as transportation, support the use of renewable energy, update and expand the grid, reduce the use of single-use plastics, and expand the bottle bill, among other initiatives. Casey Bowers, Action Fund Executive Director for the Environmental League of Mass., is responsible for creating and executing the strategy to ensure the policy priorities we need pass the legislature. She will discuss some of the most significant bills before the Legislature, their potential impact, and why you should support them. The Legislative Session ends on July 31. This is the perfect timeframe to reach out to your elected representatives to encourage their support for critical climate bills. Register for What's the State House Doing <https://gmail.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c84b6a20d758053d2d3b6e7b7&id=0599e84c9b&e=c29277f34f> Where Did the Snow Go? Wednesday, June 5th, 7 PM Zoom New England is currently warming faster than the global average. As a result, southern New England is now a global hot spot of decreasing snow cover and throughout New England, annual precipitation has increased along with severe rainstorms. Join Professor Stephen Young <https://gmail.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c84b6a20d758053d2d3b6e7b7&id=11f6930dd0&e=c29277f34f> from Salem State University as he explains the science behind New England's warming and what impacts this warming is already creating and will create in the future. Three of his recent publications provide an insight into climate change in New England: “Overall Warming with Reduced Seasonality: Temperature Change in New England, USA, 1900–2020 <https://gmail.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c84b6a20d758053d2d3b6e7b7&id=80629ece53&e=c29277f34f>” in the journal *Climate.* “Global and Regional Snow Cover Decline: 2000–2022 <https://gmail.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c84b6a20d758053d2d3b6e7b7&id=f63e1d4dd3&e=c29277f34f>” in the journal *Climate.* “Snow cover change and its relationship with land surface temperature and vegetation in northeastern North America from 2000 to 2017 <https://gmail.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c84b6a20d758053d2d3b6e7b7&id=7be50f9113&e=c29277f34f>” in the *International Journal of Remote Sensing*. Register for Where Did the Snow Go? <https://gmail.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c84b6a20d758053d2d3b6e7b7&id=7b049f3662&e=c29277f34f> Best regards, Collette Sizer
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