Pirate's Cove

Gotta keep that power and funding going, rather than focusing on actual, real environmental issues. Hey, perhaps something like the Flint water crisis could have been avoided, eh?

U.S. has entered unprecedented climate territory, EPA warns

For years, President Donald Trump and his deputies played down the impact of greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels and delayed the release of an Environmental Protection Agency report detailing climate-related damage. But on Wednesday, the EPA released a detailed and disturbing account of the startling changes that Earth’s warming had on parts of the United States during Trump’s presidency.

Good grief, Trump was in office for just 4 years. What did China Joe and Barack do, other than climavirtue signal?

The destruction of year-round permafrost in Alaska, loss of winter ice on the Great Lakes and spike in summer heat waves in U.S. cities all signal that climate change is intensifying, the EPA said in its report. The assessment, which languished under the Trump administration for three years, marks the first time the agency has said such changes are being driven at least in part by human-caused global warming.

As it launched an updated webpage to inform the public on how climate change is upending communities throughout the country, the Biden administration gave the agency’s imprimatur to a growing body of evidence that climate effects are happening faster and becoming more extreme than when EPA last published its “Climate Indicators” data in 2016.

EPA Administrator Michael Regan said he wants to make clear to the entire country the dangers of rising temperatures in the United States.

“We want to reach people in every corner of this country because there is no small town, big city or rural community that’s unaffected by the climate crisis,” Regan told reporters Wednesday. “Americans are seeing and feeling the impacts up close with increasing regularity.”

EPA staffers said the data detail how the nation has entered unprecedented territory, in which climate effects are more visible, changing faster and becoming more extreme. Collectively, the indicators present “multiple lines of evidence that climate change is occurring now and here in the U.S., affecting public health and the environment,” the agency said.

Who would have thought that the climate would change? That’s never happened over the previous 4.5 billion years, right? Sure, that’s sarcastic as hell, but, when deal with cult members, do they deserve a rational reply? And how do they know this is unprecedented territory? Do they have actual, direct measurements of what occurred during the previous Holocene warm periods, just to shorten the time period? This is nothing more than scaremongering from people who refuse to give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their lives Net Zero, while attempting to slap more government restrictions on your life and take more of your money.