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Global warming is a real problem for New Jersey. Of all the effects
of global warming, sea level rise is the one that will hit our state
the hardest. If nothing is done to reverse global warming, sea levels
could rise two to four feet in the next century, which would submerge
all our beaches under water and cause chronic flooding over 9 percent
of New Jersey’s land, including the Meadowlands, Atlantic City, Cape
May, the Delaware Bay Shore and Long Beach Island.
Fortunately, global warming is solvable. We’ve
had a lot of success here in New Jersey adopting policies to reduce
global warming pollution, but much more must be done. Scientists say
that to reverse the worst of global warming we must cut global warming
pollution by more than half by the middle of this century. We can do
that by making big changes to reduce our energy consumption, shift to
clean, renewable sources of energy and require global warming polluters
to pay for every pound of global warming pollution they emit.
New
Jersey’s commitment to tackling global warming can have a big impact.
If New Jersey were it's own country, we would rank 32nd
in the world for global warming emissions-more than Argentina,
Greece and Israel. New Jersey can show other states and the
nation that solving global warming is more than possible. If we’re
going to solve global warming, we have to start here and now.
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