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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 change's 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 that warming and all-too-wild weather are changing daily lives, using the phrase "climate disruption" as another way of saying global warming.
Still, it's 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.
White House science adviser John Holdren called the report, the third edition of a congressionally mandated study, "the loudest and clearest alarm bell to date signaling the need to take urgent action." Later this summer, the Obama administration plans to propose new and controversial regulations restricting gases that come from existing coal-fired power plants.
Some fossil energy groups, conservative think tanks and Republican senators immediately assailed the report as "alarmist." Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said President Barack Obama was likely to "use the platform to renew his call for a national energy tax. And I'm sure he'll get loud cheers from liberal elites from the kind of people who leave a giant carbon footprint and then lecture everybody else about low-flow toilets."
Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana said the report was supposed to be scientific but "it's more of a political one used to justify government overreach."
The report which is full of figures, charts and other research-generated graphics includes 3,096 footnotes to other mostly peer-reviewed research. It was written by more than 250 scientists and government officials, starting in 2012. A draft was released in January 2013, but this version has been reviewed by more scientists, including twice by the National Academy of Science which called it "reasonable," and has had public comment. It is written in a bit more simple language so people can realize "that there's a new source of risk in their lives," said lead author Gary Yohe of Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
Environmental groups praised the report. "If we don't slam the brakes on the carbon pollution driving climate change, we're dooming ourselves and our children to more intense heat waves, destructive floods and storms and surging sea levels," said Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Scientists and the White House called it the most detailed and U.S.-focused scientific report on global warming.
"Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present," the report says. "Corn producers in Iowa, oyster growers in Washington state and maple syrup producers in Vermont are all observing climate-related changes that are outside of recent experience."
The report looks at regional and state-level effects of global warming, compared with recent reports from the United Nations that lumped all of North America together.
"All Americans will find things that matter to them in this report," said scientist Jerry Melillo of the Marine Biological Laboratory, who chaired the science committee that wrote the report. "For decades we've been collecting the dots about climate change, now we're connecting those dots."
Ah yes, dumb fucks. You know so much more than the scientists that have been studying the problem for decades.
And once again, all the Scientific Societies, all the National Academies of Science, and all the major Universities in the world have policy statements that say that AGW is real, and a clear and present danger to all of us. But you ignoramouses can do nothing but flap-yap with zero evidence backing your up.
Ah yes, dumb fucks. You know so much more than the scientists that have been studying the problem for decades.
And once again, all the Scientific Societies, all the National Academies of Science, and all the major Universities in the world have policy statements that say that AGW is real, and a clear and present danger to all of us. But you ignoramouses can do nothing but flap-yap with zero evidence backing your up.
Fossil, the scientists that I meet and learn from every week at the University state just opposite to all you state. Whom am I to believe, real practicing scientists, or an anonymous poster on the internet?
Fossil, the scientists that I meet and learn from every week at the University state just opposite to all you state. Whom am I to believe, real practicing scientists, or an anonymous poster on the internet?
Ah yes, dumb fucks. You know so much more than the scientists that have been studying the problem for decades.
And once again, all the Scientific Societies, all the National Academies of Science, and all the major Universities in the world have policy statements that say that AGW is real, and a clear and present danger to all of us. But you ignoramouses can do nothing but flap-yap with zero evidence backing your up.
Fossil, the scientists that I meet and learn from every week at the University state just opposite to all you state. Whom am I to believe, real practicing scientists, or an anonymous poster on the internet?
Climate change is a fact!! The science is settled!!
Some other "settled" science....
The earth is the center of the universe
The Sun revolves around the earth
The earth is flat
There is nothing more anti-scientific than the idea that science is "settled".
You may now go back to gulping your Kool-Aid.
Dumb fuck, Zander, it was the church that held these views, and the scientists that disproved them. And some of the scientists were killed by the church for their efforts.
You willfully ignorant fucks are so ideologically tied to your lies that you are ridicoulous in your claims.
The fact remains that virtually the whole of the scientific community states that AGW is a fact, and we are seeing the effects of that warming right now.
Fossil, the scientists that I meet and learn from every week at the University state just opposite to all you state. Whom am I to believe, real practicing scientists, or an anonymous poster on the internet?
No, it doesn't.
the Flat Earth Society was just as hysterical and adamant that their entire scientific community had Consensus that the Earth was a flat plane supported on the back of a giant turtle
Fossil, the scientists that I meet and learn from every week at the University state just opposite to all you state. Whom am I to believe, real practicing scientists, or an anonymous poster on the internet?
You should continue to highlight your gullibility and overall lack of rational thought.
OH NO!!! We're all gonna die!!! It's not global warming. It's worse!! It's ......CLIMATE DISRUPTION!!!!!!!!!!
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 change's 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 that warming and all-too-wild weather are changing daily lives, using the phrase "climate disruption" as another way of saying global warming.
Still, it's 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.
White House science adviser John Holdren called the report, the third edition of a congressionally mandated study, "the loudest and clearest alarm bell to date signaling the need to take urgent action." Later this summer, the Obama administration plans to propose new and controversial regulations restricting gases that come from existing coal-fired power plants.
Some fossil energy groups, conservative think tanks and Republican senators immediately assailed the report as "alarmist." Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said President Barack Obama was likely to "use the platform to renew his call for a national energy tax. And I'm sure he'll get loud cheers from liberal elites from the kind of people who leave a giant carbon footprint and then lecture everybody else about low-flow toilets."
Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana said the report was supposed to be scientific but "it's more of a political one used to justify government overreach."
The report which is full of figures, charts and other research-generated graphics includes 3,096 footnotes to other mostly peer-reviewed research. It was written by more than 250 scientists and government officials, starting in 2012. A draft was released in January 2013, but this version has been reviewed by more scientists, including twice by the National Academy of Science which called it "reasonable," and has had public comment. It is written in a bit more simple language so people can realize "that there's a new source of risk in their lives," said lead author Gary Yohe of Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
Environmental groups praised the report. "If we don't slam the brakes on the carbon pollution driving climate change, we're dooming ourselves and our children to more intense heat waves, destructive floods and storms and surging sea levels," said Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Scientists and the White House called it the most detailed and U.S.-focused scientific report on global warming.
"Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present," the report says. "Corn producers in Iowa, oyster growers in Washington state and maple syrup producers in Vermont are all observing climate-related changes that are outside of recent experience."
The report looks at regional and state-level effects of global warming, compared with recent reports from the United Nations that lumped all of North America together.
"All Americans will find things that matter to them in this report," said scientist Jerry Melillo of the Marine Biological Laboratory, who chaired the science committee that wrote the report. "For decades we've been collecting the dots about climate change, now we're connecting those dots."
FULL ALARMING REPORT HERE!!!!
