This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing.
According to the Fourth National Climate Assessment, the report draws a direct connection between the warming atmosphere and the resulting changes that affect our lives, communities, and livelihoods, concluding that the evidence of human-caused climate change is overwhelming and continues to strengthen, that the impacts of climate change are intensifying across the world, and that climate-related threats to our physical, social, and economic well-being are rising.
The report finds that the continental U.S. already is 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than it was 100 years ago. The oceans are on average nine inches higher and we are experiencing far worse heat waves than 50 years ago.
Stay tuned next time to find out what an additional 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit could mean for us.
