James Boulter, an associate professor in the Watershed Institute for Collaborative Environmental Studies and the Chemistry department at UW-Eau Claire, recently completed a policy brief for the Environmental Defense Fund, in collaboration with the Iowa Policy Project.
Boulter has done extensive research on climate change. His policy brief analyzes the best, most recent science related to climate change and its impact on Iowa following devastating spring floods there.
His report focuses on increasing temperatures, increasing precipitation and the growing threat of devastating floods becoming the new normal. It also focuses on public policy solutions that could potentially lessen the impact of climate change.
While Boulter’s analysis focuses on Iowa, many of its findings are relevant to Wisconsin and other Midwest states.