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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConfusing at best....U.S. Report Says Humans Cause Climate Change, Contradicting Top Trump Officials
Smoke rose from trees burned in a wildfire in Wrightwood, Calif., last year. A report from 13 federal agencies says extreme weather events have cost the United States $1.1 trillion since 1980.
WASHINGTON Directly contradicting much of the Trump administrations 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 Trumps 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? Theyre obviously not getting it from their own scientists.
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 Trumps 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? Theyre obviously not getting it from their own scientists.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/climate/us-climate-report.html
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Confusing at best....U.S. Report Says Humans Cause Climate Change, Contradicting Top Trump Officials (Original Post)
spanone
Nov 2017
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Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)1. It Doesn't Take Much To Contradicting Top Trump Officials
Loser Vindictive Assholes.
joshcryer
(62,287 posts)2. What's sad is that they have to keep doing this.
Reaffirming known facts that we've had objectively proven for the better part of four or five decades.
BigmanPigman
(51,674 posts)3. I read that the sea level will rise 8' by 2100
and it will effect the East Coast more for some reason. This shows how cities will change. Very costly!
https://www.fastcompany.com/3067846/see-how-the-coming-8-feet-of-sea-level-rise-will-drown-your-city