Climate change will hit New England hard, report says
Source: boston globe
By David Abel Globe Staff August 09, 2017
The Northeast will experience warmer temperatures, higher seas, and greater amounts of rain and snow than federal scientists forecast only three years ago, according to a draft of a major report about climate change awaiting the approval of the Trump administration.
The findings were based on an array of new research tools and methods that have sharpened climate scientists’ understanding of how climate change will affect the United States, a greater clarity that one scientist likened to the vast improvement in the images of cellphone cameras over the years.
“New observations and new research have increased scientists’ understanding of past, current, and future climate change,” the report’s authors wrote. “Thousands of studies conducted by tens of thousands of scientists around the world have documented changes in surface, atmospheric, and oceanic temperatures; melting glaciers; disappearing snow cover; shrinking sea ice; rising sea level; and an increase in atmospheric water vapor.”
Human activity is the primary reason for much of those changes, which include more powerful storms and the warmest temperatures on the planet in at least 1,500 years, scientists wrote.
.............................“Every year, the signal just becomes clearer and clearer.”.....................................
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What a stupid comment from the WH!
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/08/09/climate-change-will-hit-new-england-hard-report-says/064xm0Cjuewy1PzD5zkZCP/story.html?p1=Article_Trending_Most_Viewed
......White House officials called reports about the draft report “very disappointing.”
The Times report implied that the document had not been made public, but drafts of the report have been available for months online.
“The White House will withhold comment on any draft report before its scheduled release date,” said Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a spokeswoman for the White House.
While uncertainties remain, the report finds that it’s now possible to attribute more extreme weather events to climate change, such as major heat waves in Europe in 2003 and in Australia in 2013. Advances in modeling and new observations have also allowed scientists to understand circulation patterns in the atmosphere and oceans better.
Massive fires in Europe and Australia in places that never had them, hottest months in history year after year EVERYWHERE. The entire world has become So Cal in fire season. And here in So Cal winter stopped coming some years back. Seriously, I used to put our Canus bulbs in the garage during the cold months (okay I did it a couple of years) and now those plants bloom all year round. And they're taller than I am!
They don't make it easy do they? 
p.s. u rock! 
