Many of the Climate Impacts Predicted in the Last National Climate Assessment, in 2014, Are No Longer Theoretical (nytimes.com)

This year's report contains many of the same findings cited in the previous National Climate Assessment, published in 2014. From a report: More and more of the predicted impacts of global warming are now becoming a reality. For instance, the 2014 assessment forecast that coastal cities would see more flooding in the coming years as sea levels rose. That's no longer theoretical: Scientists have now documented a record number of "nuisance flooding" events during high tides in cities like Miami and Charleston, S.C.

"High tide flooding is now posing daily risks to businesses, neighborhoods, infrastructure, transportation, and ecosystems in the Southeast," the report says. As the oceans have warmed, disruptions in United States fisheries, long predicted, are now underway. In 2012, record ocean temperatures caused lobster catches in Maine to peak a month earlier than usual, and the distribution chain was unprepared.

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ridiculous

[Anonymous Coward]

Generally, I believe that humans contribute to global warming. But you cannot attribute short-term events to long term climate change. What this report shows is that the people writing the report are not objective or scientific.

So, it's time to do something

[PPH]

We have a few tricks up our sleeve. Seed the upper atmosphere with sulfates, dump iron in the ocean to increase carbon sequestration, feed seaweed to cows, replace CO2 producing power generation with nuclear?

No? Doesn't fit some preconceived agenda? Then global warming must not be that important if we are throwing options off the table that lightly. Come back when it's a problem.

Re:So, it's time to do something

[melted]

Ah, the good old fashioned "X, ???, Profit" canard:

1. Make manufacturing more expensive, ruin the economies worldwide (developing and not) by taxing energy, and throw the poor back into poverty
2. ???
3. Profit

It is not enough to merely point out problems. Any idiot can do that. Suggest real, actual solutions. And no, taxing CO2 and methane is not a viable solution, if you care about the economy, standard of living, etc, the cure is worse than the disease. And fixing problems here when China and India shit all over the Paris accords is not a viable solution either.

Maybe so, still no proof for human cause

[Anonymous Coward]

Folks everybody and their uncle by now know that the climate is changing, as it always has and alwyas will.

So stop wining and claiming the moral highground and that you have all the answers. What those in costal areas should do is move to higher grounds or put their dwellings on poles. *that* would at least solve a real problem today as opposed to the unrealistic reduction of CO2 emissions by humans. Unrealistic because the climate just simply doesn't care what we do, and because it is highly unlikely that CO2 emissions can be reduced down to the levels asked for by the IPCC, and not last nor least because CO2 has major benefits for plant & food growth, just as emitting CO2 has major economic benefits. So inventives run counter for most parts of the globe.