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Climate Impacts Threaten Nearly Every Aspect of Life in U.S., Government Report Says
Scientific American ^ | November 10, 2022 | By Chelsea Harvey, Benjamin Storrow

Posted on 11/11/2022 7:53:39 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

The effects of climate change are steadily worsening and now threaten nearly every aspect of life in the U.S., according to a stark draft of a federal climate report released Monday.

And many of the nation’s most vulnerable residents, including low-income people, people of color and indigenous communities, are suffering the worst effects.

“As climate risks continue to increase in scale and frequency, multiple climate hazards and cascading climate impacts are disrupting essential societal systems in every part of the country,” the report states.

The draft constitutes the fifth installment of the National Climate Assessment, a congressionally mandated report produced by the U.S. Global Change Research Program that evaluates the effects of climate change on the United States.

The draft, which is being circulated for public comment, involves contributions from dozens of scientists.

The report lays out the growing threats to U.S. society in some of the starkest terms ever seen in the periodic assessments. The United States as a whole has already warmed by about 2.5 degrees F since 1970, compared to about 1.6 degrees of warming worldwide over the same period. The effects of climate change are “far-reaching and worsening,” the report states, and larger reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are needed immediately to avoid even worse outcomes.

Intensifying extreme weather events are among the most serious and wide-ranging threats to American life. In addition to the raw destruction they cause to human life and property, they also pose growing dangers to people's health, food and water supplies and the national economy.

Extreme heat is the biggest weather-related killer in the country and is a particular threat to people who are elderly, unhoused or who have preexisting health conditions.

(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangefraud; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 11/11/2022 7:53:39 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nonsense.

Someone justifying their paycheck from the government.


2 posted on 11/11/2022 7:54:31 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Scientific American used to be scientific. Now it’s just government propaganda.


3 posted on 11/11/2022 7:55:32 AM PST by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Indirectly, of course. The actual problem is the government.


4 posted on 11/11/2022 7:55:54 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

SURE it does:

AIR Water Grass Trees Crops Everything


5 posted on 11/11/2022 7:56:26 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Government is a bigger threat.


6 posted on 11/11/2022 7:56:44 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE (It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That’s why we did not see a red tsunami.


7 posted on 11/11/2022 7:57:43 AM PST by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Paraphrasing GHW Bush in 1980, Voodoo Science.


8 posted on 11/11/2022 7:58:03 AM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

HUH! I coulda sworn the Israelis controlled the climate. 😂👍


9 posted on 11/11/2022 7:58:31 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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Climate Whackos Threaten Nearly Every Aspect of Life in U.S., Government Report Says

Fixed it.

10 posted on 11/11/2022 7:59:10 AM PST by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Government Wants to Control Every Aspect of Life in U.S.


11 posted on 11/11/2022 7:59:45 AM PST by robel
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To: beethovenfan

All ski areas in the West opening early as it just dumped up tp 4’ of snow in the last 4 days.

The climate sure is changing. Right back to a nice big snowy winter.

Globull Warming my a&&.


12 posted on 11/11/2022 8:00:00 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And you people are worried about what Trump says.

Eye on the ball, people!


13 posted on 11/11/2022 8:00:46 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why do they keep shoveling this crapola?


14 posted on 11/11/2022 8:01:07 AM PST by Nifster (OI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How convenient.


15 posted on 11/11/2022 8:01:15 AM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Absolute and total nonsense.


16 posted on 11/11/2022 8:03:53 AM PST by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Government overreaction to the Climate Threat is a bigger threat than the Climate itself.

BTW, when did the narrative change from "Climate Change" to "Climate Threat"?

17 posted on 11/11/2022 8:04:58 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Imagine this:
"Request for Proposals"

"Scientists needed for study to establish that climate change affects every part of our daily lives; ample funding available"

Do you think any scientists will submit proposals for this grant? What do you think the results of this study will be?

18 posted on 11/11/2022 8:05:06 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: lastchance

2 Chronicles 7:13-14. Who controls the weather and other things?


19 posted on 11/11/2022 8:05:09 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Unless, American taxpayers come up with $2 trillion.


20 posted on 11/11/2022 8:05:17 AM PST by depressed in 06
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