“Gov. Jerry Brown continued to sound the alarm about climate
change on Monday, saying people need to find a way to ‘live with
nature’ and ‘not to collide with it.’”
“The devastating wildfires scorching Southern California offer a
glimpse of a warmer and more fiery future, according to
scientists and federal and international reports.”
“President Barack Obama is holding interviews on the White House
lawn today with meteorologists from across the country to
publicize a new administration report that says the effects of
‘human-induced’ climate change are already being felt across the
country — with rising seas along the coastline and wildfires
scarring the West.”
“A new federal report on climate change released by the
White House does not focus, as previous reports did, on
predictions about the future but instead offers stark
descriptions of the here and now: shorter winters, intensified
storms, deepening drought, more frequent heat waves.”
“The effects of human-induced climate change are being felt in
every corner of the United States, scientists reported Tuesday,
with water growing scarcer in dry regions, torrential rains
increasing in wet regions, heat waves becoming more common and
more severe, wildfires growing worse, and forests dying under
assault from heat-loving insects.”
“Climate change is already being felt in every region of the
United States, resulting in hotter summers, shorter winters,
extreme precipitation, even worsening allergies that will change
the way Americans live, according to a government report released
Tuesday.”
“Dwindling water for farms, longer fire seasons and coastal
flooding of homes and businesses await California as climate
change intensifies, according to a federal report released
Tuesday that details how global warming is damaging every region
of the country.”
“Global warming is rapidly turning America the beautiful into
America the stormy, sneezy and dangerous, according to a new
federal scientific report. And those shining seas? Rising and
costly, the report says.”
“The satellite images viewed by President Obama before a meeting
with eight Western governors were stark, showing how snowpack in
California’s mountains had shrunk by 86 percent in a single
year.”
“Saying that climate change has moved from an issue for the
distant future to one ‘firmly in the present,’ a federal
scientific panel Tuesday released a report cataloging the impacts
of such changes, saying some would actually be beneficial ‘but
many more are detrimental.’”
From the San Francisco Chronicle, in a commentary by Gabriel
Metcalf:
“How much do you care about the future? If you’re like most
people, you do care – but maybe not so much that you are willing
to make radical changes to your life for the sake of things that
will happen a hundred years from now.”
“While researchers have sometimes connected weather extremes to
man-made global warming, usually it’s not done in real time. Now
a Utah State University study is asserting a link between climate
change and both the intensifying California drought and the polar
vortex blamed for a harsh winter that mercifully has just ended
in many places.”
“As millions around the world celebrate what is labeled the
biggest secular holiday, Earth Day, local leaders say the
successes since 1970 are many, but the problems — particularly
the 800-pound gorilla of global climate change — have grown into
a daunting challenge.”
“Climate change is already affecting every continent and ocean,
posing immediate and growing risks to people, an international
panel of scientists warned Monday.
“As part of its campaign to address climate change, the White
House on Wednesday unveiled a website to serve as a one-stop
location for the enormous amount of climate data housed at
different federal agencies.”
“The Obama administration hopes to fight global warming with
the geeky power of numbers, maps and even gaming-type
simulations. …
“The government also is working with several high-tech
companies, such as Google, Microsoft and Intel, to come up with
tools to make communities more resilient in dealing with
weather extremes, such as flooding, heat waves and drought.”
“Just how much will the Earth heat up over the next 100 or 200
years? Climate scientists are not able to predict with high
certainty. They have estimated that average global temperatures
will increase by 1.5 to 4.5 degrees Celsius — 2.7 to 8.1 degrees
Fahrenheit — given a doubling of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere.”
“For the first
time, maps and summaries of historical and projected temperature
and precipitation changes for the 21st century for the
continental U.S. are accessible at a county-by-county level on a
website developed by the U.S.
