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Climate change: Report warns of growing impact on US life (hurl alert)
BBC News ^ | 23rd November 2018 | BBC News

Posted on 11/23/2018 2:28:34 PM PST by Ennis85

Unchecked climate change will cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars and damage human health and quality of life, a US government report warns.

"Future risks from climate change depend... on decisions made today," the 4th National Climate Assessment says.

The report says climate change is "presenting growing challenges to human health and safety, quality of life, and the rate of economic growth".

The warning is at odds with the Trump administration's fossil fuels agenda.

The White House said the report - compiled with help from numerous US government agencies and departments - was inaccurate.

Spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said it was "largely based on the most extreme scenario, which contradicts long-established trends by assuming that... there would be limited technology and innovation, and a rapidly expanding population".

The world's leading scientists agree that climate change is human-induced and warn that natural fluctuations in temperature are being exacerbated by human activity.

What does the report say?

The US climate assessment outlines the prospective impacts of climate change across every sector of American society.

The US climate assessment outlines the prospective impacts of climate change across every sector of American society.

What reaction has there been?

Environmental groups said the report underlined their demands for action.

Brenda Ekwurzel, director of climate science at the Union of Concerned Scientists and one of the report's authors, said the report made it clear that climate change was not "some problem in the distant future".

"It's happening right now in every part of the country," she said.

That view was echoed by Abigail Dillen, president of environmental group Earthjustice.

"While President Trump continues to ignore the threat of climate change, his own administration is sounding the alarm," she said.

What does President Trump say about climate change?

In October, President Trump accused climate change scientists of having a

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: abigaildillen; brendaekwurzel; climate; climatechange; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; earthjustice; fakenews; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; howmanymoretimes; junkscience; lindsaywalters; wildfires
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1 posted on 11/23/2018 2:28:34 PM PST by Ennis85
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2 posted on 11/23/2018 2:33:24 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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Fake news - peddled by Deep State bureaucrats with an anti-Trump agenda.


3 posted on 11/23/2018 2:41:14 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory O f A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Are they panicking today because it’s getting warmer?
Or are they panicking today because it’s getting colder?
Or are they just panicking today?


4 posted on 11/23/2018 2:47:21 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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I can say that the weather is becoming more of a problem when farming .Too cold and wet here(north central Ohio).


5 posted on 11/23/2018 2:48:41 PM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: Ennis85
Don't worry the left have a plan /s


6 posted on 11/23/2018 2:51:37 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)
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To: Ennis85

The only thing growing in this regard is the level of hysteria and idiocy in the scammers claims. By now aren’t we all supposed to be starving or swimming or dead or something? I’m sure we’ve passed “the point of no return” at least a half dozen times already.


7 posted on 11/23/2018 2:52:12 PM PST by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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And..?


8 posted on 11/23/2018 2:55:49 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberal is lies.)
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To: ThunderSleeps

https://electroverse.net/professor-valentina-zharkova-breaks-her-silence-and-confirms-super-grand-solar-minimum/


9 posted on 11/23/2018 2:56:37 PM PST by Hojczyk
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If they want to convince me then some/most of their predictions need to come true.

When we had the solar eclipse a while back the times and the path were predicted well in advance, and they came true. That’s real understanding of the event and there’s nothing close to that from the Global Warming religion.


10 posted on 11/23/2018 3:06:45 PM PST by libertylover (I'm not against immigration; I'm against ILLEGAL immigration.)
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Coldest Thanksgiving In 150 Years As Northeast Hit By "Siberian" Temperatures

Professor Valentina Zharkova Breaks Her Silence And CONFIRMS “Super” Grand Solar Minimum

11 posted on 11/23/2018 3:12:17 PM PST by blam
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To: Electric Graffiti
Interesting idea. Just need to figure out how to wire it to the sun now.


12 posted on 11/23/2018 3:14:02 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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lol...we need a plan to combat the left’s brainwashing and mental illness.


13 posted on 11/23/2018 3:23:41 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)
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The sun is freaking shutting down http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3707802/posts

We are looking at a few centuries of cold, you greedy scamming scum and the scientifically illiterate idiots (snowflakes, millennials, etc.) who buy this garbage. /obviously not directed at you Ennis or any Freeper/

14 posted on 11/23/2018 3:26:43 PM PST by piytar (If it was not for double standards, the Democrats and the left would have NO standards.)
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When man is able to control the weather, man will be God. Hint : man is not and never will be God


15 posted on 11/23/2018 3:30:37 PM PST by no-to-illegals (..There is no difference between liberals/rinos/moslems/illegals/lamestream media ...)
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The lift in the U.S. economy, thanks to President Trump, has increased the wheels of production. Think the pizza effect: The more people who can afford pizza the more pizzas will be made.

The economy is firing up the pizza ovens. New workers are on the roads; doing the work commute. New robots are consuming more electricity to deal with the increasing manufacture of goods. And more workers are expending heat from their bodies as they do what companies cannot afford what the robots can do or, cannot do. Then, there is the increased energy for distribution: Ships, airplanes, trains, trucks and cars. Then there is the energy of warehousing and fork lifting. Finally, there is the energy of using those new products. Home pizza ovens anyone?

Just my theory: All that energy, in the form of heat, goes into the atmosphere. Low pressure systems occur when an air mass warms. Increased human activity may be increasing those low pressure areas and causing wild weather conditions. It reminds me of the old song, “June is Busting Out All Over.” Yes. Your mind has to go deep to understand the symbolism:

June is bustin’ out all over
All over the meadow and the hill
Buds’re bustin’ outa bushes
And the rompin’ river pushes
Ev’ry little wheel that wheels beside the mill

Can tornadoes in Oregon may be the canary in the mine shaft of coming events? Is CO2 just a scapegoat for ordinary human activity? Maybe I can get a government grant to find out if my theory is correct. Until then, people need to shut up, get their asses out of bed and go to work.


16 posted on 11/23/2018 3:37:59 PM PST by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: Electric Graffiti

We need to find those Harvard and Yale Scientists and kill them. Anyone trying to sell the idea of turning down the heat of the Sun should be removed from the equation.


17 posted on 11/23/2018 3:52:13 PM PST by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~ There needs to be a quieting of the screaming lambs.)
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To: Ennis85
Unchecked climate change will cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars...

Trying to "check" this natural process will cost many times more and have miniscule effect if any.

18 posted on 11/23/2018 4:11:05 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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We're all gonna die!! Related:

Trump's dire climate report hands ammunition to Democrats

19 posted on 11/23/2018 4:13:33 PM PST by upchuck (When hatred of culture becomes itself a part of culture, the life of the mind loses all meaning.)
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Global warming will have tremendous effects on the economy of the world because of all the things that government will do to try to stop it.


20 posted on 11/23/2018 4:25:09 PM PST by webheart (Grammar police on the scene.)
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