The third National Climate Assessment, released by the White House, says the number and strength of extreme weather events have increased over the past 50 years.
Infrastructure is being damaged by sea level rise, downpours and extreme heat.
The report says these impacts are likely to worsen in the coming decades.
Coming hot on the heels of the trio of reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the assessment re-iterates the finding that climate change is real, and "driven primarily by human activity".
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I think it is extremely important that we take articles like this seriously. The fact that the climate, the atmosphere we depend on to live every day, is negatively changing should scare us all to the point where we have to correct the error of our ways. The extreme weather that has worsened over the past 50 years is not something "that has always been there" or "was always happening." Yes, it is not entirely industrialization and urbanization and the pollution we cause, but a huge percentage of it is. The bottom line is that we need the Earth to sustain us a lot longer, and we are not treating it accordingly.
I agree that this should be taken very seriously, we have all learned the hard way that weather is no joke.
ReplyDeleteI wish that climate change got more attention in the media and politics.
ReplyDeleteI can believe it. Just in the past two years, the amount of bad or just plain unusual weather seems to have increased. Climate change can occur naturally every 10,000 years or so because our planet revolves either a little closer or father away from the sun. However, human action seems to have definitely had an impact.
ReplyDeleteThis is serious. The weather has been very crazy lately. Just last week it was a regular day and then suddenly it was white outside and there was tornado warnings in Dallas. The heat is also becoming more and more insane and we should take precautions.
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