lobal Change Research Act (GCRA) of 1990 report notes that the area burned in wildfires nationwide each year has increased over the past 20 years, and "although projections vary by state and ecoregion, on average, the annual area burned by lightning-ignited wildfire is expected to increase by at least 30 percent by 2060."
WHY [IS] IT that our Lords and Masters dedicate so much [TIME] and money to ALL of this variously scientific reporting apparatus, and then choose NOT to respond responsibly to the obvious conclusions of the reports that result !!!???
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might hold under Joe Biden. As Mark Rowe has said: "Had John F. Kennedy been in the White House over the past four years, rather than Donald trump, he might have updated his most famous call to arms and declared: "Ask not what the climate is doing to your country, but what your country can do for climate." [IT] was in fact, another North American, the Canadian former governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, who came up with this phrase during a 2020 BBC Reith Lecture.Carney's call was directed at the international community, but it had a pointed reference to the USA. Much has been rightly made of the impact of our changing climate on the most vulnerable and developing parts of the world, where economies and peoples are least able to cope and sit in the crosshairs of extreme weather and rising tides. BUT the USA [IS] NOT EXEMPT.
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Added by Michael Grove at 16:16 on September 11, 2021
more severe.
Prof Ed Hawkins, the report’s co-author and professor of climate science at the University of Reading, said: “We’re already experiencing climate change, including more frequent and more extreme weather events.
“The consequences will continue to get worse for every bit of warming, and for many of these consequences, there’s no going back.”
The findings came ahead of the Cop26 climate conference, to be hosted by the UK in Glasgow in November, and mark the strongest warning yet from one of the most respected global bodies of scientists about the fate the world faces.…