Climate Change and the Highway System: Project Explores Impacts and Adaptation Approaches

摘要

The potential impacts of climate change on the highway system are many. Higher greenhouse gas concentrations are likely to increase the Earth's average temperature and to alter patterns of precipitation and the incidence and severity of storms. According to a 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the recent increases in coastal erosion and flooding are results of sea level rise caused by climate change; global mean sea level is projected to rise by 0.09 to 0.88 meters between 1990 and 2100.