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Climate impacts grow, but U.S. can adapt, says new report
National Geographic ^ | 11/23/2018 | ALEJANDRA BORUNDA

Posted on 11/23/2018 1:01:38 PM PST by RightGeek

Today, U.S. government agencies released a heavily anticipated new report about how climate change is impacting the United States. The 4th National Climate Assessment (NCA4) lays out a detailed picture of how communities across the country are already feeling the effects of climate change—from intensified risk of wildfires in California, to droughts slowing agricultural production in Iowa and much more.

The report is the second half of a vast effort by scientists, land managers, public health officials, and others to assess the state of the climate across the U.S. The report's first volume, published in 2017, summarized the state-of-the-art knowledge about how climate is affecting temperatures, water resources, sea-level rise, and other natural systems around the country. The second half, published today, focuses on how climate change is already tugging at the economic and social fabric of the United States.

In clear, unwavering terms, the new report states that without "substantial and sustained reductions" in greenhouse gas emissions, climate change will hurt people, economies, and resources across the U.S. But the report also highlights how its worst impacts can be avoided, by adapting to our warmer world and by working to lessen future changes in Earth's climate.

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This new report is an installment in an ongoing series. It was produced by the U.S. Global Change Research program, a consortium made up of representatives from thirteen different federal agencies that was established in 1990, after George H.W. Bush signed the Global Change Research Act into law.

The 1990 act—which passed with not a single dissent in the Senate—required a report every four years to pull together the best available research on how climate change affects the U.S. The reports were supposed to look into the future, predicting how climate would influence Americans 25 to 100 years ahead.

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Why don't we improve the environment by firing some of these idiots?


1 posted on 11/23/2018 1:01:38 PM PST by RightGeek
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Adapt = $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

On the backs of middle class taxpayers.


2 posted on 11/23/2018 1:03:32 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: RightGeek

Earth tilting on axis... Summers hotter and winters are colder.


3 posted on 11/23/2018 1:04:08 PM PST by DOC44
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To: RightGeek

If it wasn’t for climate change, Chicago would still be under a mile of ice.


4 posted on 11/23/2018 1:04:09 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: RightGeek

Issued by liberal Deep State anti-Trump bureaucrats.


5 posted on 11/23/2018 1:04:12 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory O f A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: dhs12345

Came for the picture of Goebbels.

Left disappointed.


6 posted on 11/23/2018 1:04:28 PM PST by TheConservator (All the blather about TrumpÂ’s violation of the law is simply a projection of their own lawlessness.)
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To: RightGeek

The climate changes, and living things adapt.

Admittedly I was a C student in high-school biology,
but I do believe that’s how things are SUPPOSED to work.


7 posted on 11/23/2018 1:06:03 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TheConservator

8 posted on 11/23/2018 1:06:53 PM PST by moovova
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To: TheConservator

I’m sorry...I thought you said gerbil.


9 posted on 11/23/2018 1:07:25 PM PST by moovova
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To: RightGeek

More pukeage from the National Geographic.

I liked them much better when they used to run photos of nekid oogga boogga women.


10 posted on 11/23/2018 1:08:23 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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North East was 35 deg cooler than average on Thanksgiving day!

Man must try to warm up the earth as much as possible to delay the onset of next ice age. Warming temps won’t kill many, but next ice age will kill MILLIONS.


11 posted on 11/23/2018 1:10:50 PM PST by entropy12 (One million LEGAL immigrants/year is too many, without vetting for skills, Wealth or English skills.)
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Image result for richard gere gerbil

 

Gerbil? Did somebody say Gerbil??

12 posted on 11/23/2018 1:12:13 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: moovova

Send them all a capybara.


13 posted on 11/23/2018 1:13:56 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory O f A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: RightGeek

13 different agencies participated?

13 8-?

Why, that’s almost as many as have fallen in goosestep with the Media Putsch and the Ruuushian Collusion theory..


14 posted on 11/23/2018 1:16:32 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: entropy12
A professor-Valentina Zharkova-- who contradicted 93% of the models regarding sun spots was proven right: An ice age is probably looming. She studied the changing polarity, and potential flip-flops of same.

Not to worry, though, it normally lasts only 350 to 400 years.

15 posted on 11/23/2018 1:18:27 PM PST by chiller (Dem's ideals are beautiful...they just never work in a real world. Feel good, OR do the right thing.)
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If it wasn’t for climate change, Chicago would still be under a mile of ice.

The same ice sheet that denuded sections of bedrock in Central Park, NYC.

16 posted on 11/23/2018 1:19:17 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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Warming temps won’t kill many, but next ice age will kill MILLIONS.

The UN will approve, as their Agenda 21 calls for reduction of Earth's population by about 85%.

17 posted on 11/23/2018 1:21:17 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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risk of wildfires in California, to droughts slowing agricultural production in Iowa

Because there have never been wildfires in California or droughts in Iowa.

18 posted on 11/23/2018 1:29:08 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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“Adapt = $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$........”On the backs of middle class taxpayers.”

No. Adapting will involve more the private sector than the government, and even with government involvment in that and in mitigating the effects of any climate change, it will be hugely less costly than the fees, taxes, “govenment imposed CO2 emissions markets”, and other things chasing after CO2.

Humans can adapt, and that effort leaves open the possibility that “warming” could be (a) far less than alarmist predict or (b) totally offset by a new Sun-cycle induced “climate cooling”.


19 posted on 11/23/2018 1:29:29 PM PST by Wuli
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Zharkova’s studies are scarey. They will one day be holding the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade in July.


20 posted on 11/23/2018 1:34:38 PM PST by Bookshelf
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