The US Global Change Research Project which prepares the National Climate Assessment (NCA4) is soon to be releasing its fourth iteration of findings on the state of climate change on our planet. It is the largest government driven assessment using multiple climate science agencies in its evaluations. You know. Science. NPR is reporting on seeing the NCA4 and the scientific consensus on how much of a negative impact humans are having on global climate change is as strong as ever.
The climate report, obtained by NPR, notes that the past 115 years are "the warmest in the history of modern civilization." The global average temperature has increased by about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit over that period. Greenhouse gases from industry and agriculture are by far the biggest contributor to warming. [...]
The report states that the global climate will continue to warm. How much, it says, "will depend primarily on the amount of greenhouse gases (especially carbon dioxide) emitted globally." Without major reductions in emissions, it says, the increase in annual average global temperature could reach 9 degrees Fahrenheit relative to pre-industrial times. Efforts to reduce emissions, it says, would slow the rate of warming.
"This is good, solid climate science," says Richard Alley, a geoscientist at Penn State University, who says he made minor contributions to the report's conclusions on sea level rise. "This has been reviewed so many times in so many ways, and it's taking what we know from ... a couple of centuries of climate science and applying it to the U.S."
Meanwhile our government is not only pretending that nothing is happening, they are actively trying to ramp up the various ways we can screw over Americans while at the very same time, increase the level of carbon emissions we pump out into the atmosphere.