The National Climate Assessment reveals that climate change is impacting the U.S. extensively, with extreme weather events increasing by about 60% in the Northeast. The report highlights the far-reaching and worsening harm across all regions, affecting the lives and livelihoods of Americans. It emphasizes the unprecedented extremes in the Northern Great Plains and the Midwest, including severe droughts, hail frequency and size increases, floods, and wildfires. The assessment also underscores the economic costs of climate change, with a major climate disaster occurring every three weeks. The report emphasizes the urgency to address the problem and the need for adaptation in the affected regions.
The Northern Great Plains region is experiencing unprecedented extremes related to changes in climate, including severe droughts, increases in hail frequency and size, floods, and wildfire. But the National Climate Assessment details how the region can adapt to these extremes. https://t.co/JnCeGG4g2Y
“Unprecedented”: That's how a new assessment released by the administration of President Joe Biden describes the toll that climate change is taking on the United States. The report has found that there is a major US climate disaster every three weeks https://t.co/e9Iyfb8VhR
"Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters." – @guardian, 2004 #Catastrophizing https://t.co/MExG00GgnV
National Climate Assessment - Vox As we get better at quantifying the economic costs of a warmer planet the imperative to do solve the problem increases. It is difficult for society to act on hypotheticals, no matter how grounded in science they may be. https://t.co/gK43cZ1HXm
Climate change is already costing the U.S. billions https://t.co/qnNucMg1Jv https://t.co/mklR1yQ4ov
Climate change is forcing tweaks to a vital map for farmers and gardeners https://t.co/ZuJOV7i3jF https://t.co/LUrnpIX3JF
Climate change is impacting every region of America. The latest National Climate Assessment details how those impacts are affecting the lives of livelihood of Americans living in the Midwest. https://t.co/4ESCJUVm8T
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“I could still tell you scary stories about a future ravaged by climate change, and they’d be true… But it’s also true that we have a once-in-human-history chance, not only to prevent the worst effects, but to make the world better right now.” https://t.co/aFVonTAsIk
A major US government climate report finds warming is affecting all 50 states and impacts are getting worse, but the tools to curb it are in our grasp https://t.co/y8ZQLOiqvK
Latest US climate assessment shows the extreme toll taken by climate change https://t.co/1esSVbvV2l
"there is no darkness but ignorance"~William Shakespeare/Twelfth Night Climate impacts in the U.S. are ‘far-reaching and worsening,’ federal report finds @brady_dennis https://t.co/XdDx7ha3As
Revved-up climate change now permeates Americans’ daily lives with harm that is “already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the United States,” a massive new government report says. https://t.co/JruzmU86H1
USDA's Plant Hardiness Zone Map Shows Half the Country Has Shifted https://t.co/eTTo5hqQyW
New report finds that global warming of 2C would see "extensive, long-term [&] essentially irreversible" losses from the Earth's ice sheets & glaciers. Polar oceans would be ice-free & suffer permanent corrosive acidification. That's where we're heading. https://t.co/lHShPPSQ9r
Weather disasters are taking a toll on the Northeast. The National Climate Assessment shows extreme rain events have increased about 60% in the region. But many states are taking action to adapt to the changing climate. #NCA5 https://t.co/jmUALrUHnQ