Climate Changed
Climate-Crisis Forecast by U.S. Has No Path to Avoid Catastrophe
More storms, more drought and at least $100 billion in added annual spending await. Can anything be done?
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A landmark U.S. climate change study by 13 federal agencies brings greater urgency to the question of what Americans can do to avoid an unprecedented shift in how they live in coming decades. What it doesn’t do is provide any answers.
“The report does not make policy recommendations, but it is abundantly clear that there are strong policy implications,” said Andrew Light, a co-author and a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute. “Every single one of them is, unfortunately, not something that the U.S. is pursuing at the national level.”