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Climate Change Means Hotter Weather in Delaware

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Expect Delaware summers to get hotter and temperatures closer to those of Savannah, Georgia.

That’s what national climate expert Katherine Hayhoe told a state panel yesterday if global warming is left unchecked.

The Texas Tech University professor worked as a consultant on a report called the Delaware Climate Change Impact Assessment.

She said that a certain amount of change has already occurred adding that the state needs to plan for reducing their impact.

The $46-thousand report comes as the panel plans to give its final recommendations by November on how to deal with issues such as sea level rise which could have a dramatic impact on the state’s shoreline and wetlands as well droughts on farmland.  

(See: Wilmington News Journal)

Don Rush is the News Director at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.