| Climate Change Speeding Up in US, Leaked Government Report Finds |
| Tuesday, 08 August 2017 08:42 |
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Excerpt: "The U.S. is experiencing rapid climate change, 13 government agencies say in an unreleased report obtained by The New York Times."
Climate Change Speeding Up in US, Leaked Government Report Finds08 August 17
Read it at the New York Times. |
| Last Updated on Tuesday, 08 August 2017 09:08 |
he U.S. is experiencing rapid climate change, 13 government agencies say in an unreleased report obtained by The New York Times. The report finds with “high confidence” that temperatures have spiked since 1980 and that “how much more the climate will change depends on future emissions and the sensitivity of the climate system to those emissions.” The 13 agencies’ findings contradict the Trump administration’s climate stance. Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency chief, Scott Pruitt, has stated he does not believe carbon emissions are a primary cause of climate change. Scientists behind the report told the Times that they worried the Trump administration would attempt to suppress the document. 