2023 National Climate Assessment paints grim picture while offering hope. The United States is warming 60 percent more quickly than the global average, since land heats up more quickly than oceans—especially at higher latitudes
by Wagamaga
2023 National Climate Assessment paints grim picture while offering hope. The United States is warming 60 percent more quickly than the global average, since land heats up more quickly than oceans—especially at higher latitudes
by Wagamaga
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In a sprawling, multimedia report that stresses it is not too late to act, the Biden administration on Tuesday delivered a sobering catalog of climate change’s impacts in every corner of the United States—from battered coasts to parched cornfields to blazing forests. It measures the human toll, including at least 700 people dying of heat-related illness each year, in a nation warming 60 percent more quickly than the world as a whole.
“The effects of human-caused climate change are already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the United States,” the report says. But it adds that each increment of warming avoided through cutting carbon emissions will reduce the risks and harmful impacts.
They need to stop saying that “it’s not too late” because that just makes people think they can keep the status quo for a while longer. Scientists need to emphasize that we don’t have as much time as we think and the sooner we make significant changes the better.