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As US climate impact report is released, a look at how US national parks are impacted by climate change
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The #Trumpadministration has a new strategy for deflecting concerns about the warming planet. #Trump officials are minimizing warnings from scientists by arguing they are exaggerated and based on the worst-case scenario. They say the National Climate Assessment (NCA) - an expansive federal government report on the dangers of climate change in the US - considers only the highest possible levels of greenhouse gas emissions. Trump said he did not believe #climatechange would have economic consequences for the US.

Global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations appear to be the highest they have been in 3m years, and continued carbon growth is likely lead to carbon levels not seen in tens of millions of years. If humans greatly reduce the greenhouse gases spewing into the atmosphere, continuing warming will still pose wide-ranging dangers.


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Trump officials argue climate change warnings based on ‘worst-case scenario'
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/01/trump-officials-argue-climate-change-warnings-based-on-worst-case-scenario
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Thirteen U.S. government agencies have just issued an alarming new report predicting that #globalwarming, if allowed to continue unabated, will shrink the #Americaneconomy by 10% by 2100, amid environmental impacts that are, if anything, even more dire. The White House tried to bury the report by releasing it during the holiday weekend, and President Donald #Trump announced he didn’t 'believe it.' But its conclusions are inescapable.

The top of the world is now warming at twice the average global rate. You’ve likely seen the graphs and stats: Last winter, maximum sea-ice cover narrowly missed being the smallest ever recorded — a dubious honor that goes to the winter of 2016-17. The changes that warming is bringing to the Arctic affect much more than a couple of exotic whale species; they are transforming the region’s lands as well as waters. For creatures as various as majestic caribou, diminutive seabirds and humans here and around the world, the results are dire.


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Trump says climate change isn’t real. He should come to Utqiagvik in Alaska
https://www.politico.eu/article/cop-24-donald-trump-says-climate-change-isnt-real-utqiagvik-in-alaska/
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Next week will see thousands of people arrive in Katowice, #Poland, for the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on #ClimateChange, otherwise known as #COP24. Taking place between December 2 and 14, a lot is riding on the summit.

The Paris Agreement, reached at #COP21 in 2015, will loom large over events at Katowice. According to the United Nations, COP24 is important because this year marks the deadline agreed by signatories of the Paris Agreement to adopt a "work program for the implementation" of the commitments they made in 2015. Other commitments made in Paris include increasing financing for climate action and the development of 'national climate plans' by 2020.


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COP24: Why a climate change summit taking place in Poland is so important
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/30/cop24-why-a-climate-change-summit-in-poland-is-so-important.html
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President Donald #Trump on Wednesday (Nov 21) once again disputed the science of #climatechange, questioning how this week’s Thanksgiving cold spell could occur as the planet warms. On Friday, scientists working for his administration gave Trump a stark answer: climate change is a menace that threatens the wellbeing of the United States. The phenomenon is already disrupting local communities in the U.S., and could cost the #USeconomy hundreds of billions of dollars a year without a significant effort to stop it.

The landmark new report, which comes from more than a dozen federal agencies and is known as the National Climate Assessment, includes more than 1,000 pages and the work of more than 300 authors breaking down climate change’s impacts in specific regions across the country, touching on everything from agricultural changes to sea-level rise to health effects. The timing of report’s publication also raised questions about White House interference. The document was originally scheduled for a mid-December release, but officials said at the last minute they would publish it on the Friday after Thanksgiving.


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The Government's Massive New Climate Change Study Challenges Trump's Policies
http://time.com/5462102/climate-change-report-trump-science/

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While surveying the devastating damage caused by the deadly #California fires, President Donald #Trump was asked last week whether the experience altered his views on #climatechange. On Friday (Nov 23), the US government released the second volume of the Fourth National Climate Assessment, which warns about the potential long-lasting impact of climate change if we don’t make major changes. The report, like many before it, stresses the importance of cutting #greenhousegas emissions and investing in renewable energy technology before it’s too late.


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Devastating federal report refutes Trump’s climate change denials
https://www.fastcompany.com/90272007/devastating-federal-report-refutes-trumps-climate-change-denials

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Leaders of the Group of 20 have found the minimum common ground to fix #globaleconomy after difficult, all-night talks in #Argentina, but only 19 of them agreed to support the Paris agreement on #climate. #UnitedStates President Donald #Trump diverged with his #G20 partners at the summit in capital, Buenos Aires, as he refused to back the global action on #climatechange and by watering down past pledges to fight trade protectionism. A final communique, adopted on Saturday (Dec 1), said all the other G20 members agreed to implement the 'irreversible' Paris Agreement while respecting different paces of economic development.


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Trump diverges with G20 partners on climate change, protectionism
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/12/trump-diverges-g20-partners-climate-change-protectionism-181201172936694.html
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#Wildfires that scorched more than 248,300 acres in northern and southern #California are close to containment. But after firefighters spent nearly 2 weeks battling the flames, a lot of work - and danger - remains. #Heavyrains forecast across the state this week threaten #mudslides and #floods in the burn areas and misery for the displaced, who are camping outside. The rain looms as agencies scramble to assist the tens of thousands left without homes, repopulate evacuees to areas still threatened by fire-damaged infrastructure, and continue search and rescue efforts.

The new threats come as Ryan Zinke, the interior secretary, blamed 'environmental radicals' for the destructive wildfire during a visit to the scorched town of Paradise over the weekend. The #Campfire killed at least 79, left hundreds unaccounted for and razed the town of Paradise in northern California, engulfing 12,637 homes. Now 70% contained, the fire has burned across 151,373 acres in areas that are now facing inclement weather.


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California wildfires: refugee camp 'could become a mud pit' as rain looms
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/20/california-wildfire-refugees-mudslides-ryan-zinke-environmental-radicals
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A new US government report delivers a dire warning about #climatechange and its devastating impacts, saying the economy could lose hundreds of billions of dollars - or, in the worst-case scenario, more than 10% of its #GDP - by the end of the century. The federally mandated study was supposed to come out in December but was released by the #Trump administration on Friday (Nov 23), at a time when many Americans are on a long holiday weekend, distracted by family and shopping.

Coming from the US Global Change Research Program, a team of 13 federal agencies, the Fourth National Climate Assessment was put together with the help of 1,000 people, including 300 leading scientists, roughly half from outside the government. It's the second of two volumes. The first, released in November 2017, concluded that there is 'no convincing alternative explanation' for the changing climate other than 'human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases.' The report's findings run counter to President Donald Trump's consistent message that climate change is a hoax.


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Climate change will shrink #USeconomy and kill thousands, government report warns
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/23/health/climate-change-report-bn/index.html
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President Donald #Trump, after surveying the destruction wrought by #wildfires in #California, said Saturday (Nov 17) that the devastation has not altered his opinion on climate change. On Air Force One alongside Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is also the state's governor-elect, Trump said that while he disagrees with the state leaders on the issue, their views are 'maybe not as different as people think.' Trump said he thought there were 'a lot of factors' involved when asked about the role of #climatechange in contributing to the fires.


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Asked about climate change, Trump says 'lot of factors' to blame for California wildfires
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/17/politics/donald-trump-climate-change-wildfire/index.html
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