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On November 23, 2018, the U.S. government released the Fourth National Climate Assessment, a federally mandated study compiled by thirteen agencies and over 300 scientists to examine the effects of climate change. Two months later, Melville House, a Brooklyn based publisher released it as a paperback for $17.95.
After two years spent unraveling the policies of his predecessors, President Trump and his appointees are going after influential government reports.
Let’s add the World Economic Forum to the list of organizations sounding a clarion call on climate change. Their recent risks report identifies climate change as one of the most severe risks that the world faces, and warns, “it is in relation to the environment that the world is most clearly sleepwalking into catastrophe.”
As my colleague Coral Davenport reported, the timing of the release was no accident. The Trump administration hoped to bury the assessment’s grim findings in the Thanksgiving weekend news cycle leftovers and avoid having to respond to its major conclusion: that unchecked rising temperatures will cost the American economy hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century.
Greenhouse gas emissions worldwide are growing at an accelerating pace this year, researchers said Wednesday, putting the world on track to face some of the most severe consequences of global warming sooner than expected.
Find out what the Fourth National Climate Assessment Report says about your region’s climate future.
A brilliant breakdown on what this report, mandated by Congress to occur in the US every 4 years, says.
The US Global Change Research Program released its 4th report on climate change: U.S. agriculture and the communities it supports are threatened by increases in temperatures, drought, heavy precipitation events, and wildfire on rangelands.
As my colleague Coral Davenport reported, the timing of the release was no accident. The Trump administration hoped to bury the assessment’s grim findings in the Thanksgiving weekend news cycle leftovers and avoid having to respond to its major conclusion: that unchecked rising temperatures will cost the American economy hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century.
The White House tried to hide the National Climate Assessment by releasing it on Black Friday. That plan failed. Stories continue to surface and reporters continue to ask questions about the report’s stark findings.