The guidance comes as the agency’s leader asserts that ‘most of the threats from climate change are 50 to 75 years out.’
By Juliet Eilperin and Juliet Eilperin Reporter covering domestic policy and national affairs Email Bio Follow Brady Dennis Brady Dennis Reporter focusing on environmental policy and public health issues Email Bio Follow April 27 at 4:41 PM The Environmental Protection Agency published a 150-page document this past week with a straightforward message for coping with the fallout from natural disasters across the country: Start planning for the fact that climate change is going to make these...
The president has said he intends to withdraw the nation from a key international climate accord, but last fall 13 agencies issued a report concluding that “the evidence of human-caused climate change is overwhelming and continues to strengthen, that the impacts of climate change are intensifying across the country, and that climate-related threats to Americans’ physical, social, and economic well-being are rising.
While the White House struck one phrase attributing extreme weather events to climate change, the document still refers to “climate change” and “a changing climate” 22 times. The U.S. government’s main climate change website, Climate.gov, features a detailed explanation of how the science has evolved in recent years, including how federal researchers have contributed to the field.
“The science has really developed in the last decade, in particular, around the influence of global warming on extreme events,” said Noah Diffenbaugh, a professor and senior fellow at Stanford University who studies the climate system.
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