Climate data for the last 50 years show dramatic changes in temperature and precipitation at the global, national, regional, and state level. In New York and elsewhere, global climate change is believed responsible for warmer temperatures, more extreme weather events and altered season length with intensifying impact on humans, wildlife, the economy, and the environment. Without action to reduce heat-trapping emissions today, summer in New York will feel like summer in South Carolina by the end of this century, Cornell scientists say. Climate change is a top priority for CUAES, which supports research and extension that addresses the opportunities and challenges of climate change is a top priority. The Station works in cooperation with the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future, helping to organize events and conferences around climate change.
   

Learn more about Global Climate Change:

• Cornell University Renewable Bioenergy Initiative
• Responding to Global and Regional Climate Change - Impacts 2007  (pdf)
• Sustainability at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (pdf)
• Cornell University Chronicle Online:
  As the Big Red goes green, climate conference builds bridges across campus
• Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future 
• Northeast Regional Climate Center