Climate change will shrink US economy and kill thousands, government report warns
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Source: CNN
(CNN)A new US government report delivers a dire warning about climate change 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, at a time when many Americans are on a long holiday weekend, distracted by family and shopping.
David Easterling, director of the Technical Support Unit at the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, emphasized that there was "no external interference in the report's development." He added that the climate change the Earth is experiencing is unlike any other.
"The global average temperature is much higher and is rising more rapidly than anything modern civilization has experienced, and this warming trend can only be explained by human activities," Easterling said.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/23/health/climate-change-report-bn/index.html
PLEASE DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO GET THE WORD OUT.
PLEASE!!!
THIS NEEDS TO GO VIRAL. FOR THE SAKE OF OUR EARTH, THIS NEEDS TO GO VIRAL.
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...I took a university class called Technology, Ecology, and Man that about knocked my socks off at the time and certainly prepared me for Al Gore. And before that? A 9th-grade Science class that explained that the source of water on our island was an underground lens of fresh water floating on brackish water, and that the fresh water was only replenished by rain trickling down through layers of porous lava and was pretty much limited by the amount of rain and how fast it could drip through rock... which prepared me to understand the concept of finite resources.
This information has been out there and available to the average Joe for a really long time. My response to this report that Trump et al. intend to suppress is 
is wrong with people?
I am really pissed that it's my grandkids whose lives are going to be short, nasty, and brutish unless there is a fckng miracle. On the one hand, we live in California, which is pretty woke. On the other hand, we live on the coast, so maybe we shoukd invest in motorboats. On yet another hand -- fires. And then there is the fckng GOP in DC.
