Latest Draft Climate Assessment Highlights Mounting Damages To U.S.

November 8, 2022
The latest draft National Climate Assessment (NCA) warns the United States is experiencing growing damages from climate change that will continue for decades, but says the benefits to current and future generations from responding to the threat with greenhouse gas reductions and other strategies would far outweigh the costs. The Nov. 7 release of the draft for public review by the U.S. Global Change Research Program coincides with the opening days of United Nations climate talks featuring dire warnings that...


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