Sunday, November 25th, 2018
Stephan: The Republican Party has become a christofascist cult, and I no longer expect anything of them but attempts to do damage to American democracy and social wellbeing in order to satisfy their lust for power, their corruption, and their greed. The American two-party system is dying. The Republicans are supported by about 40 percent of the country's voters who are in such a fear fugue and so terrified they are no longer rational beings. We will see the true metal of the Democratic Party beginning in January, until then just hold on.
All of this is taking place in an environment undergoing catastrophic change as the latest and best effort by the American scientific community lays out in their Fourth National Climate Assessment. This is the clearest roadmap we have.
What happens in the next two years will determine the fate of America.
To download the entire report: https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/
Summary Findings
These Summary Findings represent a high-level synthesis of the material in the underlying report. The findings consolidate Key Messages and supporting evidence from 16 national-level topic chapters, 10 regional chapters, and 2 chapters that focus on societal response strategies (mitigation and adaptation). Unless otherwise noted, qualitative statements regarding future conditions in these Summary Findings are broadly applicable across the range of different levels of future climate change and associated impacts considered in this report.
1. Communities
Climate change creates new risks and exacerbates existing vulnerabilities in communities across the United States, presenting growing challenges to human health and safety, quality of life, and the rate of economic growth.
The impacts of Read the Full Article
