Climate assessment delivers a grim overview

[OldDem2012]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-climate-assessment-20130112,0,1331482.story

QUOTE:

The draft Third National Climate Assessment, issued every four years, delivers a bracing picture of environmental changes and natural disasters that mounting scientific evidence indicates is fostered by climate change: heavier rains in the Northeast, Midwest and Plains that have overwhelmed storm drains and led to flooding and erosion; sea level rise that has battered coastal communities; drought that has turned much of the West into a tinderbox.

"Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present," the report says. "Americans are noticing changes all around them. Summers are longer and hotter, and periods of extreme heat last longer than any living American has ever experienced. Winters are generally shorter and warmer."

Offered without comment...the article speaks for itself.

[Berlum]

1. "This calls for more Republican lies." - Rush 'Draft-Dodger' Limbaugh (R - Propaganda)

[octoberlib]

2. I read through part of the assessment . Scary stuff.

They predict crops and livestock will only be resilient for the next 25 years or so. After that food security will be a problem. Link to
the NCA http://ncadac.globalchange.gov/download/NCAJan11-2013-publicreviewdraft-fulldraft.pdf

From Think Progress:
The rule in Washington, DC is if you want to bury news, release it late on a Friday afternoon. So one can only assume the climate silence crowd prevailed in the release this afternoon of the draft U.S. Climate Assessment.
Perhaps it’s this chart they don’t want folks talking about, from the “Newer Simulations for Projected Temperature” in Chapter 2:




http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/01/11/1438421/climate-silence-draft-climate-assessment-9-15f-warming-over-most-of-us/