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Possibly due to fears that the Trump Administration is going to try and bar the word "climate change" across the board, a massive document discussing the concrete effects of climate change was leaked.
NYT Article
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/climate/climate-change-drastic-warming-trump.html
PDF of the report
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914641/Draft-of-the-Climate-Science-Special-Report.pdf
Most of the authors work for NOAA or top universities (Columbia, Texas Tech, Berkeley etc).
It's over 500 pages, so I haven't gotten much into it yet. Basic summary includes:
• Temperature and precipitation extremes have become more common (this btw is also forcing the UK's Met to update its forecast system)
• Up to 17% increase in extreme precipitation events in the Northeast
• Global changes affect the US
• Oceans are rising, warming, becoming more acidic
• Flooding has increased in the US
• Arctic is warming faster
• Lots of possibility for unanticipated changes
NYT Article
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/climate/climate-change-drastic-warming-trump.html
PDF of the report
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914641/Draft-of-the-Climate-Science-Special-Report.pdf
Most of the authors work for NOAA or top universities (Columbia, Texas Tech, Berkeley etc).
It's over 500 pages, so I haven't gotten much into it yet. Basic summary includes:
• Temperature and precipitation extremes have become more common (this btw is also forcing the UK's Met to update its forecast system)
• Up to 17% increase in extreme precipitation events in the Northeast
• Global changes affect the US
• Oceans are rising, warming, becoming more acidic
• Flooding has increased in the US
• Arctic is warming faster
• Lots of possibility for unanticipated changes