Alaska

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Alaska New Hampshire Commonalities

• Flooding
• Forests
• Winters
• Coastal Communities
• Cold Water Fish
• Waterfowl
• Critical Habitat
• Small, innovative, pioneering population
• Renewable Energy Potential
• Key Senators

White Mountains, NH
Brooks Range, AK
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Whats at Stake
"The very notion of the Northeast as we know it
is at stake. The near-term
emissions choices we make in the Northeast and
throughout the world will help determine the
climate and quality of life our children and
grandchildren experience." Cameron Wake,
Professor at the Climate Change Research Center,
University of New Hampshire
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Alaska Waterfowl

• Hatch dates have advanced 5 to 10 days since
  1982 in all 5 species studied in Yukon Delta NWR.
• Sea level rise, increased storm frequency and
  intensity and wetland drying will likely cause
  dramatic changes in waterfowl communities.
  -- Julien Fischer,
  Scientist, USFWS

Cackling chicks
Aleutian Cackling Geese
Brandt Geese
White Front Goose
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Temperatures

• Summer Temperatures
• Many of the Northeast regions cities,
  including Buffalo, Hartford, and Concord, NH, are
  expected to experience three times as many days
  of extreme heat by late-century as they do now.
• Northeast Climate Impact Assessment (NECIA)
  , 2007

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Temperatures

• Winter temperatures have increased by 4.4
  degrees Fahrenheit. Climate Change
  Research Center, University of New Hampshire
• Due to emissions in the recent past, average
  temperatures across the northeast are projected
  to rise another 2.5 to 4 degrees Fahrenheit in
  winter. NECIA, 2007

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Winter Sports in New Hampshire

• By the last third of this century
• 650 million downhill skiing industry could
  disappear
• No longer economically viable to manufacture
  snow
• 2-month snowmobile season could occur only in
  White Mountains and north
• Snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing
  need natural snow
• NECIA, 2007

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Hunting and Angling
In 2001, sportsmen and women spent more than 619
million on hunting and fishing in New Hampshire,
supporting nearly 13,000 jobs. USFWS National
Survey, 2001
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Existing Impacts in New Hampshire

• In three years, weve had three hundred-year
  flood events in New Hampshire tremendous damage
  somewhere upwards of 35 million to roads,
  bridges and private property.
• Special testimony at the Committee on Global
  Warming and Energy Independence, 2007

Rochester, NH

• Rainfall is expected to become more intense and
  periods of heavy rainfall are expected to become
  more frequent.
• NECIA, 2007

Raymond, NH
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Forest Impacts

• In New Hampshire, maple syrup production is
  worth approximately 4 million annually. Carbon
  Coalition
• Cultural impact
• Eastern Spruce Budworm

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What We Can Do
Government Actions
Senator Judd Gregg

• Climate change is one of the most serious
  environmental problems facing our planet. It
  touches nearly everything we do. Our climate is
  inextricably linked to our economy and heritage
  of our nation.
• The Renewable Energy Tax Parity Act
• Up to a 2,000 credit on
• wood pellet stoves and boilers

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What We Can Do
Government Actions
Senator John E. Sununu
The Mercury Emissions Control Act

• The toxicity of mercury to the health of humans
  and the environment has been documented time and
  again by scientists around the world. While state
  regulations have made some strides in combating
  high mercury levels in air and water sources,
  tougher federal standards are needed.

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Be Heard Write your Senators
New Hampshire Sierra Club www.sierraclub.org/nh
/ Clean Air Cool Planet www.cleanair-coolpl
anet.org Carbon CO2alition
www.carboncoalition.org Union of Concerned
Scientists www.ucsusa.org National Wildlife
Federation www.nwf.org, www.targetglobalwarming.
com New Hampshire Audubon Society
www.nhaudubon.org