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Dread Pirate Roberts

(1,896 posts)
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 09:41 AM Nov 2017

Meanwhile....we're all screwed!

What's going to kill us first? Trump or stupidity? Of course it's a trick question because Trump IS stupidity, but as we waste our time bickering amongst ourselves, consider what is taking place in the real world. It's hard to decide what's worse. Is it Trump or climate change? But since Trump doesn't believe in climate change, before it gets scrubbed from the internet, you should probably go to the web site and download the report written by real actual scientists here: https://science2017.globalchange.gov/

U.S. Report Says Humans Cause Climate Change, Contradicting Top Trump Officials

Directly contradicting much of the Trump administration’s position on climate change, 13 federal agencies unveiled an exhaustive scientific report on Friday that says humans are the dominant cause of the global temperature rise that has created the warmest period in the history of civilization.

Over the past 115 years global average temperatures have increased 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, leading to record-breaking weather events and temperature extremes, the report says. The global, long-term warming trend is “unambiguous,” it says, and there is “no convincing alternative explanation” that anything other than humans — the cars we drive, the power plants we operate, the forests we destroy — are to blame.

The report was approved for release by the White House, but the findings come as the Trump administration is defending its climate change policies. The United Nations convenes its annual climate change conference next week in Bonn, Germany, and the American delegation is expected to face harsh criticism over President Trump’s decision to walk away from the 195-nation Paris climate accord and top administration officials’ stated doubts about the causes and impacts of a warming planet.

“This report has some very powerful, hard-hitting statements that are totally at odds with senior administration folks and at odds with their policies,” said Philip B. Duffy, president of the Woods Hole Research Center. “It begs the question, where are members of the administration getting their information from? They’re obviously not getting it from their own scientists.”


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/climate/us-climate-report.html

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