U.S. climate report says global warming impact already severe

Washington Post ^ | 05/06/2014 | By Darryl Fears

[SeekAndFind]

The government’s newest national assessment of climate change, released early Tuesday, declares what a wide majority of scientists say is clear: Americans are already feeling the effects of global warming.

Heavy Northeast downpours unleashed by super storms such as Sandy, flooding from sea-level rise from Norfolk to Miami along the Atlantic Ocean, record-setting monster wildfires in several western states, a crop destroying heat wave in the Mid-West, and drought that has parched southern California, have all taken place in recent years.

“The report affirms a number of things we have known,” said Katharine Hayhoe, a Texas Tech University professor and lead co-author of the changing climate chapter of the assessment.

“But there are new aspects,” Hayhoe said. “For a long time we have perceived climate change as an issue that’s distant, affecting just polar bears or something that matters to our kids. This shows it’s not just in the future; it matters today. Many people are feeling the effects.”

The decade starting in 2000 was the hottest on record, and 2012, the year Sandy followed an epic summer drought, was the hottest ever recorded in the nation’s history, the report says. U.S. temperature is 1.3 degrees to 1.9 degrees Fahrenheit warmer now than it was 1895, and most of that increase — 80 percent, the assessment says — occurred over the last 44 years.

[elengr]

hahahaha THE EVIDENCE is everywhere...Flowers blooming...GRASS GROWING....

were doomed I tell you...DOOMED

Haha-ha, you get a double like - first for the sardonic sarcasm with a bite as deep as its truth and then for the solemn reminder about the Benghazi betrayal.

Aka obama may only be an empty girly man's suit dancing on his puppet masters' strings, but his office is where the buck stops. He left our guys high and dry to die as sure as he squeased the trigger himself. That literal bass-turd should be arrested, charged with high treason, tried, convicted, sentenced and then duly executed, all per the rule of law.

[rarestia]

[GSWarrior]

We have to act now before it’s too late again.

[luvbach1]

Which is it? Global Warming or Climate Change? And they forgot Global cooling. I’d say it should be Global Warming and Global Cooling = Climate Change whenever one or the other is happening.

[publius911]

U.S. climate report says global warming impact already severe

Thank you for keeping track of the weather.
But we do already have thousands of more serious weathermen who do competent and accurate weather forecasts daily, using computer programs that actually work.

Get back to us in 500 years, if you want to discuss CLIMATE.

Impossible to read full report available to the Stupid Public

Sorry that reality trumps arrogance and incompetence.

[Conan the Librarian]

I live at 14 feet above sea level. There is no flooding.

[publius911]

Giving us a link to the complete report, which would take most peoples less than 30 seconds to download, would actually allow the informed public the opportunity to see the actual report.

Presenting the stupid report in dibs, dribbles and discouraging-to-follow bureaucratese, guarantees no one will be able to read it, or even want to!

[publius911]

OMG!
Impact on indigenous peoples?

Very professional, guys.
Nobel Prize caliber work!

< /sarc >

[nomad]

Take the time to post a reply, it`s getting an amazing amount of Conservative feedback.

[Vaduz]

Americans are already feeling the effects of global warming.
China and India ask say what.

[JimRed]

The decade starting in 2000 was the hottest on record, and 2012, the year Sandy followed an epic summer drought, was the hottest ever recorded in the nation’s history, the report says. U.S. temperature is 1.3 degrees to 1.9 degrees Fahrenheit warmer now than it was 1895, and most of that increase — 80 percent, the assessment says — occurred over the last 44 years.

Yet we've been told that there has been no measurable warming in 17+ years. So, WHO'S LYING? My money's on the warmists...

[Amagi]

Benghazi is warming up threatening ominous impact for the Obama administration.