The Trump administration published a major report on climate change the day after Thanksgiving. We will explore the key findings each day this week.

Donald Trump doesn’t believe his own government’s major report on climate change – which the administration tried to bury over the Thanksgiving break. It warns that rising temperatures are already harming America and will cause huge damage globally.

Critical water supplies will become harder to maintain

Water will become increasingly difficult to manage in the face of climate change. Government planners are already having a harder time supplying clean water to America’s general population, farmers and ecosystems, as aquifers are being depleted in many regions of the US.

And with climate change and rising temperatures, they will be battling an even deeper worsening of droughts and more flooding from intense rainfall events.

In 2011, flooding on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers caused $5.7bn in damages. But a year later, drought conditions in many of the same areas cost the US $33bn and devastated crop harvests.

In California, a drought from 2011 to 2016 was followed by heavy rainfall that caused record flooding, landslides and erosion.

Those pendulum swings could become the normal […]