Read through the executive summary of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States report. I know we all know about climate change, but do we all know that:
Global emissions of heat trapping gases are increasingly rapidly.
Arctic sea ice is melting faster than expected.
There has already been an observed 1.5 F rise in temperatures, and another 1 degree is unavoidable.
Extreme weather will continue to become more frequent.
Water supply in the West is threatened.
"...the financial and technical challenges of defending coasts against sea-level rise under high emissions scenarios would probably result in the inundation and abandonment of many areas."
Not to mention what we are doing to other countries or vice versa.
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