A sweeping new report by the White House warns that climate change poses devastating consequences that are already transpiring across regions of the United States when it comes to the economy, public health, transportation, energy, water and agriculture.
“Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present,” the report warns. Called the “U.S. National Climate Assessment,” the White House said the report unveiled Tuesday was developed over four years with input from the country’s top climate scientists and outside organizations.
The findings, if action isn’t taken, include heat waves and coastal flooding in the Northeast, decreased water availability in the Southeast, extreme heat waves in the Midwest, damage to agriculture in the Great Plains and wildfires and water scarcity in the Southwest. The White House says the findings “underscore the need for urgent action” to combat threats from climate change.
An interactive version of the study can be found at this link, while the report — and an accompanying fact sheet — can be read below.
We all know there is no global warming. Fox News and the Republican party told us so. Anyway Jesus is coming to take 156,000 of us home before then so who cares? Global Warming would just be Jesus’ way of humanely getting the sinners ready for eternity in Hell.
Signed Will Fully Ignorant.
We have been hearing this for the past 30 yrs. the sky is falling , the sky is falling, sky is falling. We have to act now,before its to late. Its getting very,very old. The people are not falling for it anymore check to POLLS on it,its 5 to 7% way down there. So what do we have again. Another warning.!!! # WHAT i stop counting.
Fox News, Jim DeMint and most importantly big oil depend on people not understanding the time scale involved. Big problems take a lot of time to develop and even more time to remediate. Just because there isn’t a major change from one day to the next doesn’t mean change isn’t happening. Look at the data and tell us that nothing has happened over the last years. Over 99% of all the scientists on the planet who have looked at the problem agree. We are facing global warming.
How about you ignore the latest poll of what hicks think is real and isn’t and start reading interviews with the CEOs of every major energy corporation on the planet. They don’t just “admit” climate change is real, they provide evidence (which they also attribute to their own unregulated business model.) The next thing they do is lay out the blue print for how they are going to make major profit on the problem they’ve created. Adios Arctic!
The stock photo with the headline here, I believe, is from the 1993 Laguna Beach, CA fire which was caused by arson during a Santa Anna wind condition. Not really the result of climate change.