Despite Trump administration officials working to dismiss the government’s alarming new National Climate Assessment (NCA), scientists at the American Geophysical Union meeting sounded an optimistic note this week, emphasizing that the report’s findings are being widely accepted across the country.
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“You asked if people are not taking it seriously. I think it’s quite the opposite,” Michael Wehner, a scientist studying human influence on extreme weather and one of the climate assessment authors, told ThinkProgress. “It is taken very seriously by a large number of people. There will always be people who aren’t going to believe this, and those people are just missing the boat.”
Even if the science is broadly accepted, however, scientists emphasized that policies to address the problem lag behind and the world is still far from where it needs to be to seriously tackle dangerous climate change.
Read the ThinkProgress story by Kyla Mandell - “Demand for climate science isn’t going away no matter what Trump says.”
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