<p>Climate change could make Ireland less green — literally — according to a <a title="new report" href="http://irishclimate.org/" id="rna2">new report</a> entitled &quot;Changing Shades of Green,&quot; released to coincide with St. Patrick’s Day. Ireland’s lush, green landscape may fade to brown if global warming continues to take its toll, and this could have grave impacts on Irish culture, the study <a title="argues" href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKN1444055820080316?sp=true" id="v6:p">argues</a>. The report is a production of the <a title="Irish American Climate Project" href="http://irishclimate.org/" id="nj:_">Irish American Climate Project</a>, which receives support from the Rockefeller Foundation. <br />

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From the report:</p>

<blockquote>This report, as the reader will see, follows two distinct but intertwined paths. <br />

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One path, rooted in science, outlines the ecological impacts of climate change in Ireland. We describe climate changes witnessed in the later decades of the 20th century and the most likely scenarios for change in this current century…<br />

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The other path, rooted in culture, describes how these ecological changes may affect the look and feel of the Irish landscape, and how they may affect life in Ireland…We include discussions of music and poetry because they explain the intense connections between the Irish landscape and Irish culture and how changes to one can affect the other. <br />

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Summing up its motivation for making these connections between science and culture, the Climate Project says:</p>

<blockquote>The science sections may help the reader <i>know</i> these issues; the cultural sections may help the reader <i>feel</i> them.<br />

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