Major Trump admin climate report says damages are 'intensifying across country'
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Major Trump administration climate report says damages are ‘intensifying across the country’
Scientists are more certain than ever that climate change is already affecting the United States — and that it is going to be very expensive.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/11/23/major-trump-administration-climate-report-says-damages-are-intensifying-across-country/?utm_term=.36d293b7306e
The federal government on Friday released a long-awaited report with an unmistakable message: The effects of climate change, including deadly wildfires, increasingly debilitating hurricanes and heat waves, are already battering the United States, and the danger of more such catastrophes is worsening.
The report’s authors, who represent numerous federal agencies, say they are more certain than ever that climate change poses a severe threat to Americans' health and pocketbooks, as well as to the country’s infrastructure and natural resources. And while it avoids policy recommendations, the report’s sense of urgency and alarm stand in stark contrast to the lack of any apparent plan from President Trump to tackle the problems, which, according to the government he runs, are increasingly dire.
Given that history, some of the scores of scientists and federal officials who spent months working on the detailed document were frustrated, but not surprised, that the administration chose to release it on the day after Thanksgiving — typically one of the slowest news days of the year. Several people involved in the report said its release originally had been planned for early December, but after a behind-the-scenes debate in recent weeks about when to make it public, administration officials settled on Black Friday.
In a worst-case climate-change scenario, the document finds, labor-related losses by the year 2090 due to extreme heat — the sort that makes it difficult to work outdoors or seriously lowers productivity — could amount to an estimated $155 billion annually. Deaths from temperature extremes could take an economic toll of $141 billion per year in the same year, while coastal property damage could total $118 billion yearly, researchers found.
The original report can be found at: https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/
Meanwhile in the Oval Office
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1065400254151954432
seems like something tax cuts can fix by reducing the federal revanue
"Darth Revan is one to be feared. He uses his Sith magic to create fake news and pretend Climate Change - WE NEED A WITCH HUNT!" - Donald Trump.
One of my friends, who is otherwise thoroughly intelligent, doesn't believe in anthropogenic Climate Change. It frustrates me to no end.
The report’s authors, who represent numerous federal agencies, say they are more certain than ever that climate change poses a severe threat to Americans' health and pocketbooks
Lots of politicians and corporations haven't cared about people's health or the environment thus far, but maybe appealing to their greed will start to change some minds and eventually change some policies as well
As depressing as this is to say, I have to agree with you. Heck, I'm surprised that Trump of all people isn't caring about the "pocket book" aspect of it.
I've maintained that we need to improve green energy due to the fact that the rest of the world and china are going to beat us hard in tech if we don't.
And I mean hey, we're fucked if we don't, fine if we do
Anybody who doubts Climate Change should look at the following graph. It shows Climate Change over 800,000 years.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/242634/d628cc28-dbcd-4a61-85ca-9f78135e2319/image.png
People have already died, 87 of them.
insisting that global warming doesnt exist to own the libtards
They won't care so long as their own pocketbooks are fine. If regular people get fucked over that's just the cost of doing business with the oil industry.
People like Trump will be dead before global warming is an issue noticeable in their everyday lives, but what remains of their lives can be made more lavish by pretending it's not an issue and reaping the short-term economic gain.
I remember seeing a commercial years ago that shows a man standing on a train track with a train heading towards him, he explains the concept of climate change and the affects and ends it with "But what do I have to worry about?' I'm not gonna be alive to see it" and he walks off the tracks to reveal a young girl behind him with the train about to hit her.
It still burned into my mind just because of how impactful it was.
Friendly reminder that there is nothing fiscally conservative or resposible by fucking the environment and denying climate change.
fiscal conservatism has become maximising short term profits instead of long term outlooks, the trump tax cuts are dragging down the economy today.
Would it be bad to say that the line is way higher now?
It is indeed higher. That graph's limit is 400ppm and it seems to only display about 390ppm, whereas I think it's at about 420ppm now.
Here's another one:
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/earth_temperature_timeline.png
If you want to be really depressed, I was doing a (site-wide) reddit search for Climate Change a few days back and saw that someone on r/The_Donald had posted this.
The comment section is just as awful...
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/9zttm3/umm_fox_news_really_is_becoming_left_wing_their/
I've heard a republican say that all of Reagans judges turned out to be liberals
If you don't tow the line lock-step it's because you're a liberal all along
In the US? Probably not until it's too late to matter anyway. People care more about unemployment and immigration than they do climate change. For American's it's still well beyond the horizon, something our grandchildren can worry about.
Reagan was a liberal all along!
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