Fed report: Warming disrupting Americans’ lives
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) Global warming is rapidly turning America the beautiful into America the stormy, sneezy and dangerous, according to a new federal scientific report. And those shining seas? Rising and costly, the report says.
Climate changes assorted harms are expected to become increasingly disruptive across the nation throughout this century and beyond, the National Climate Assessment concluded Tuesday. The report emphasizes how warming and its all-too-wild weather are changing daily lives, even using the phrase climate disruption as another way of saying global warming.
Still, its not too late to prevent the worst of climate change, says the 840-page report, which the White House is highlighting as it tries to jump-start often stalled efforts to curb heat-trapping gases.
However, if the nation and the world dont change the way they use energy, were still on the pathway to more damage and danger of the type that are described in great detail in the rest of this report, said study co-author Henry Jacoby, co-director of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Jacoby, other scientists and White House officials said this is the most detailed and U.S.-focused scientific report on global warming.
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2014/05/06/fed_report_warming_disrupting_americans_lives/
caraher
(6,278 posts)lamp_shade
(14,836 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)A "cue" is a signal to start something, such as a theatrical performance.
lamp_shade
(14,836 posts)seabeckind
(1,957 posts)Maybe a tax break to industry to find us a solution?
If it doesn't bother their bottom line, of course.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)raindaddy
(1,370 posts)be sure to invite all of those "scientists" who insist climate change isn't man made.
humbled_opinion
(4,423 posts)Scientists Hannity and Limbaugh?
deutsey
(20,166 posts)marions ghost
(19,841 posts)worse than ever and leaves people tired and irritable. I never used to worry about it. Now it's a challenge.
The pollen season "lengthened by 24 days in Minnesota" according to the article--yikes.
L0oniX
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(135,060 posts)maddezmom
(135,060 posts)More hosts weighed in to unlock.