2023 National Climate Assessment paints grim picture while offering hope
It's not too late to act, but transition to renewable energy needs to happen much faster.
Source: arstechnica.com
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It's not too late to act, but transition to renewable energy needs to happen much faster.
In a sprawling, multimedia report that stresses it is not too late to act, the Biden administration on Tuesday delivered a sobering catalog of climate change’s impacts in every corner of the United States — from battered coasts to parched cornfields to blazing forests. It measures the human toll, including at least 700 people dying of heat-related illness each year, in a nation warming 60-percent more quickly than the world as a whole.