Yet Another Report: Humans Affect Their Planet's Climate
Federal report blames humans for global warming and its effects, The Hill
“An extensive report published by the federal government Friday asserts that humans are the primary driver of climate change, causing higher temperatures, sea level rise, agriculture problems and more. The report, the first volume of the Fourth National Climate Assessment, is years in the making, and involved contributions from more than a dozen federal agencies. It is meant to be an authoritative assessment of the current state of climate change science. Many of the report’s conclusions directly contradict the Trump administration’s positions on climate change.”
Climate Science Special Report Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), Volume I, U.S. Global Change Research Program
“This assessment concludes, based on extensive evidence, that it is extremely likely that human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases, are the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century. For the warming over the last century, there is no convincing alternative explanation supported by the extent of the observational evidence. In addition to warming, many other aspects of global climate are changing, primarily in response to human activities.”
U.S. Report Says Humans Cause Climate Change, Contradicting Top Trump Officials, NY Times
“The report was approved for release by the White House, but the findings come as the Trump administration is defending its climate change policies on several fronts. … While there were pockets of resistance to the report in the Trump administration, there was little appetite for a knockdown fight over climate change among Mr. Trump’s top advisers, who are intensely focused on passing a tax reform bill – an effort they think could determine the fate of his presidency.”
Maybe someone can send this report to Rep Bridenstine.
Ultimately Culberson pulls the strings on NASA funding. Although he does not accept the reality of climate change, he seems willing to continue funding NASA climate science, at least as far as data collection:
http://www.latimes.com/busi…
So, it would seem government policies curtailing carbon-based fuel emissions should flow naturally from this report… We shall look forward to seeing those policies soon, given the urgency of the issue. 😉
” This period is now the warmest in the history of
modern civilization.” the first major claim in the federal report is false, and a fabrication. Gavin Schmidt and USGCN have erased the 1930’s warm period, and doctored the public temperature record to conform to their carbonophobic political agenda. The 1930’s dustbowl was equal or warmer than present temps, and given the alarmist cry of modern high temp. records routinely omit the metric of how much warmer than any un named time in the past, the idea that hundredths of a degree is significant margin for a high temp record is ludicrous, given past temp record keeping was never that precise. Tony Heller / Steven Goddard has done the work on comparing USGCN , NOAA temperature record adjustments, revealing massive fraud at NOAA and USGCN aligned with a poilitical, not sciencetific agenda.