CT Climate News

Town Council’s next meeting is March 6 at 7 p.m. at town hall Comment by March 6 at 3 pm Don Stacom's 2/25 article in the Hartford Courant covers the latest on Wethersfield's 32-acre Kycia Farm . Wethersfield residents have been at odds about the future of the 32-acre rural property ever since the town bought it for more than $2 million in 2018. Wethersfield preservationists and environmentalists are pressing the town council to use Kycia Farm for agriculture and a single outdoor sports field, but another resident is pushing for a 55-and-over community of between 100 and 108 units. Unfortunately, Connecticut's archaic property tax system incentivizes towns to destroy the environment in pursuit of property tax revenue.  In spite of all the obvious and destructive climate change we're seeing every season, Connecticut 's fields and forests--critical for a sustainable planet-- are being gobbled up by developers looking to make a fast buck.  And too many towns are letti

New England is warming faster than the rest of the planet, new study finds By David Abel Globe Staff, Updated December 30, 2021,  6:44 p.m. The Massachusetts coastline, seen from the International Space Station, faces big changes as the climate warms. RON GARAN/NASA/FILE New England is warming significantly faster than global average temperatures, and that rate is expected to accelerate as more greenhouse gases are pumped into the atmosphere and dangerous cycles of warming exacerbate climate change, according to a  new study . The authors of the scientific paper, which was published in the most recent edition of the journal Climate, analyzed temperature data over more than a century across the six New England states and documented how winters are becoming shorter and summers longer, jeopardizing much of the region's unique ecology, economy, and cultural heritage. Their findings were underscored this year in Greater Boston, which is on track to having the warmest year on record si