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Normal Weather Is Over 9 May 14

The U.S. government's National Climate Assessment (NCA), the national scientific community's definitive statement on the current and future impacts of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States paints a bleak picture of climate change impacts. 300 leading climate scientists and experts were brought together to detail how human-caused global warming is being felt "here and now".

Due to a nearly two degree Fahrenheit rise in temperature throughout the U.S. the NCA climate report says Americans are experiencing water scarcity in dry regions, increasing torrential rains in wet ones, increasingly severe heat waves, worsening wildfires, and the death of forests as a result of heat-loving invasive insect species.

Trip Van Noppen, President of Earthjustice had this to say about the NCA report; "The National Climate Assessment paints a bleak picture, but it is a picture we have seen clearly for many years, and we have to act on it now."

View May 6, 2014 Common Dreams article
View May 6, 2014 Earthjustice media release
View May 6, 2014 The Guardian article
View April 30, 2014 The Weather Channel article
Visit National Climate Assessment website

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