The NYTimes reports:
The report also reflects a recent, significant shift by the Bush administration on climate science. During Mr. Bush’s first term, administration officials worked to play down a national assessment of climate effects conducted mainly during the Clinton administration, but released in 2000.
The new report, which includes some findings that are more sobering and definitive than those in the 2000 climate report, holds the signatures of three cabinet secretaries.
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The report also emphasized that the country’s capacity to detect climate shifts and related effects was eroding, as budgets and plans for long-term monitoring of air, water and land changes — both on the ground and from satellites — shrank.
Drying of the southwest is probably the most robust and consequential result.
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Drying of the southwest is probably the most robust and consequential result.
People around here don't want to believe a good portion of the southwest will depopulate, starting before mid-century. Mark my words.
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It feels like "piling on", but parts of the midwest are going to have similar and roughly contemporaneous problems of their own, if predictions for depleting of the Ogallala aquifer prove crudely accurate. Large parts of the grain and corn belts would have to revert to grazing operations.
I like the description "a national assessment of climate effects conducted mainly during the Clinton administration, but released in 2000" from the newspaper of record. Which administration do they think was in office in 2000?
Yeah I noticed that.
No question the Bush Administration was working hard to put as much daylight between themselves and the report as possible in the early days though. It's pretty odd for them to release pretty much the same thing.
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