Fig 1.
Observed and projected changes (compared to the 1901–1960 average) in near-surface air temperature for Massachusetts.
The orange line represents observed data from 1900–2020. Modeled projected changes include a lower emissions scenario with temperatures at the end of the century reaching 5.0°F plus or minus a few degrees, and a higher emissions scenario with air temperature by 2100 reaching 11.0°F plus or minus a few degrees. Note. Reprinted from Massachusetts State Climate Summary 2022. NOAA Technical Report NESDIS 150-MA by Runkle et al. (2022) [10].
Table 1.
Ordinal logistic analysis of the predictors of UMass Extension newsletter coverage.
Fig 2.
Average score on a Likert-scaled question to rate the importance of specific environmental conditions in recent years.
(N = 90).
Table 2.
Percentage of respondents who rated the provided environmental condition as important or very important.
Table 3.
Percentage of respondents who reported impactful weather events.
Table 4.
Correlation coefficients between the independent predictor variables (column headers) and the dependent variables (rows) importance of environmental conditions.
Fig 3.
Percentage of responses (N = 36) to the open-ended question, “what has changed over the years to make it harder to prepare for weather-related events?”.
Fig 4.
Percentage of responses (N = 54) that answered the open-ended question, “What has changed over the years to make it easier to prepare for weather-related events?”.
Fig 5.
Annual yield in barrels per acre from Massachusetts cranberry bogs from 1971 to 2022.
One barrel weighs 100 pounds. Data are from the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, Non Citrus Fruits and Nuts annual summary reports. Red shaded bars are among the ten warmest years on the meteorological record [51].