Climate change damage growing more pronounced across globe

Launching into coverage of climate change right now is like tuning into a football game that's half over and your team is on its way to losing. The only question is by how much.

Even if every word of last December's breakthrough Paris Agreement is implemented and global warming is slowed, according to climate scientists I've interviewed, nations might moderate the planetary abuse caused by generations of mankind pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, ocean, plants and soil.

At best, a catastrophe might be averted, they say.

But theirs is the joy of a patient learning that a diagnosis may not be terminal — only crippling. It's a reality reflected in the hooded expression of my youngest son, Noah, when the topic arises. At 20, he realizes all too well the world we've left his generation.

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