Key findings of the Global Change Impacts report

impacts-250Every 10 years the United States Climate Change Science Program releases a report summarizing the science of climate change and its impacts in the United States. This year's key findings:

  1. Global warming is unequivocal and primarily human-induced.

  2. Climate changes are underway in the United States and projected to grow.

  3. Widespread climate-related impacts are occurring now and are expected to increase.

  4. Climate change will stress water resources

  5. Crop and livestock production will be increasingly challenged.

  6. Coastal areas are at increasing risk from sea-level rise and storm surge.

  7. Risks to human health will increase.

  8. Climate change will interact with many social and environmental stresses.

  9. Thresholds have already been crossed and have lead to large – and in some cases, irreversible – changes.

  10. Future climate change and its impacts depend on choices made today.

- Source: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States.

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