A recently issued environmental report suggests that leaders in the Trump administration have already shrugged off the possibility of putting the brakes on climate change, a stance that embraces a catastrophic future for the planet.
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| A cemetery in Bucksport, South Carolina, is inundated by floodwaters from the Waccamaw River caused by Hurricane Florence. The increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events such as this have been linked to human-induced climate change. |
Scientists have warned that if current levels of fossil fuel consumption continue unchecked, Earth could warm by as much as 7 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees Celsius) by 2100.
And according to this report, that prediction is already accepted by the government as inevitable — and nothing will be done to prevent it, The Washington Post reported today (Sept. 28).
Read the story by Mindy Weisberger from LiveScience - “7-Degree Global Temperature Rise Is Inevitable, Trump Administration Presumes (and Shrugs It Off).”
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