{"id":64057,"date":"2022-11-08T12:54:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T17:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64057"},"modified":"2022-11-08T12:54:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T17:54:42","slug":"climate-change-threatening-things-americans-value-most-u-s-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64057","title":{"rendered":"Climate change threatening \u2018things Americans value most,\u2019 U.S. report says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Climate change threatening \u2018things Americans value most,\u2019 U.S. report says<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Climate change is unleashing \u201cfar-reaching and worsening\u201d calamities in every region of the United States, and the economic and human toll will only increase unless humans move faster to slow the planet\u2019s warming, according to a sprawling\u00a0new federal report<\/a>\u00a0released Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe things Americans value most are at risk,\u201d the National Climate Assessment authors, who represent a broad range of federal agencies, write in the draft report. \u201cMany of the harmful impacts that people across the country are already experiencing will worsen as warming increases, and new risks will emerge.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The congressionally mandated assessment,\u00a0last issued<\/a>\u00a0under the Trump administration in 2018, comes as world leaders\u00a0gather this week<\/a> in Egypt for a U.N. Climate Change Conference, known as COP27, aimed at prodding nations to tackle the problem with more urgency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The report\u2019s authors detail how climate-fueled disasters are becoming more costly and more common, and how the science is more clear than ever that rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are needed to slow the profound changes that are underway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Humans have pushed the climate into \u2018unprecedented\u2019 territory, landmark U.N. report finds<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The draft report, which probably will be finalized next year after a period of public comment and peer review, finds that in a world that has already warmed 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels, the situation in the United States is even more extreme.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cOver the past 50 years, the U.S. has warmed 68 percent faster than the planet as a whole,\u201d the report finds, noting that the change reflects a broader global pattern in which land areas warm faster than the ocean, and higher latitudes warm more rapidly than lower latitudes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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