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.
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 previous installment was released in 2018. 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. Wildfire smoke affects air quality across the country. Drought threatens water supplies, particularly in the beleaguered Colorado River Basin and other parts of the western United States.
The report puts price tags on the climate damages America is facing. The United States now experiences a billion-dollar weather and climate disaster every three weeks, a dramatic increase. The country once averaged almost eight $1 billion weather events every year. In the past four years, it has experienced 80.
In a change from past editions, the draft report said scientists can now quantify the impact of climate change on individual weather events with a high degree of confidence, thanks largely to advancements in scientific modeling.
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No, no they don't....
“US Government says” lol.