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Here Are Some Tangible Effects of Climate Change in the U.S.

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Despite what the Koch brothers may or may not want Americans to believe about climate change, the White House has gone ahead and released a report describing the real, tangible impact of morphing climate conditions in the U.S. in recent decades.

Titled the 2014 National Climate Assessment, the report, which will likely be dismissed out of hand by the climate change denial camp due to its Obama-centric influences, offers details about atmospheric and environmental alterations “driven primarily by human activity” (via BBC News):

Between 1958 and 2012, the amount of precipitation falling in very heavy events increased by 71% in New England and the north east, while in the drier West it went up by just 5%.

“There is no equivocation,” said lead author Prof Gary Yohe from Wesleyan University.

“It is fundamentally the pace of observations of extreme weather that makes it clear it is not natural variability.”

The report suggests that it is not just wet events that are becoming more common. The human influence on climate has “roughly doubled the probability of extreme heat events”, it says.

The authors point to the record-breaking summer temperatures in Texas and Oklahoma in 2011, where even during the night the mercury continued to soar.

CNN, momentarily demonstrating that the network’s news staff actually can cover something other than missing airliners, offered this helpful list of tips that everyone can follow to help with planetary damage control. We might suggest a precursory addition to that lineup: Believe it, people.

—Posted by Kasia Anderson

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    • mortimerzilch

      Tornado Alley appears to have moved about 300-400 miles SOUTH. We need to monitor the temperatures in the tropics. Because the people who live in the tropics are not a big voice online, they tend to get overlooked…but if there is climate warming THAT’s where it will take place most conspicuously. When the Tropics HEAT, then dense cold air from the poles tend to expand into lower latitudes – which makes it seem the Poles are melting when really they are not so much getting hotter as just losing their dense cold air…which does make it warmer there. But it’s not sound-byte simple. And requires lots and lots of data points all over the world, and multiple data sets covering just about everything you can think of. Otherwise you won’t be able to pin the crime on humans. Maybe we are still warming from that last ICE AGE we had about 10K years ago….

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