Take It Out With The Trash: WH Quietly Dumps Alarming Climate Change Report

Vehicles negotiate heavily flooded streets as rain falls, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, in Miami Beach, Fla. Certain neighborhoods regularly experience flooding during heavy rains and extreme high tides. New storm water ... Vehicles negotiate heavily flooded streets as rain falls, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, in Miami Beach, Fla. Certain neighborhoods regularly experience flooding during heavy rains and extreme high tides. New storm water pumps are currently being installed along the bay front in Miami Beach. National and regional climate change risk assessments have used the flooding to illustrate the Miami area's vulnerability to rising sea levels. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) MORE LESS
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The Trump administration arbitrarily released an alarming climate change report on Friday, a day when most Americans are still digesting their Thanksgiving dinners with their minds set on Black Friday deals.

According to the report, the U.S. is on track to lose hundreds of billions of dollars due to climate change-related costs, see its most vulnerable populations decimated by extreme weather events and face the specter of a contaminated water supply.

The report concludes that drastic steps must be taken to change our current path.

“While Americans are responding in ways that can bolster resilience and improve livelihoods, neither global efforts to mitigate the causes of climate change nor regional efforts to adapt to the impacts currently approach the scales needed to avoid substantial damages to the U.S. economy, environment, and human health and well-being over the coming decades,” it reads.

Read the full report here.

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  1. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    So when Trump said he wanted a great climate, he was lying? Shocking.

  2. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    Ironically, this report issued by the Trump Administration bolsters the argument by environmentalists that it’s legal to break the law to protect the planet. The so-called “necessity defense”.

  3. Avatar for outis outis says:

    Well, we are only talking about the potential elimination of the human race (and maybe most other forms of life currently on earth). What’s the big deal?

  4. Avatar for mtw mtw says:

    Sigh It’s just the most important report that will ever pass through the incredibly stupid White House. Millions of lives depend on it. Trump won’t know about it until the Atlantic ocean swallows Mar a Lago. That would be a good thing except it will also affect many innocent people on the coast.

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