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November 26, 2018

White House Tries to Bury Climate Report With Devastating Conclusions
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The White House quietly released a major new climate change report
Friday that seems to directly contradict its own environmental policies.
The congressionally-mandated study by 300 scientists across 13 federal
agencies warns that human-driven climate change threatens to shrink the
U.S. economy by as much as ten percent by the end of the century. It
details how the consequences of climate change are hitting on several
fronts: increasing wildfires, crumbling infrastructure, worsening air
quality, failing crops and more frequent disease outbreaks. The
more-than-1,600-page National Climate Assessment was made public by the
White House on Black Friday, causing many to question the timing of its
release. Later in the broadcast, we'll speak with the report's lead
author, Kristie Ebi, along with environmental leader Bill Mc Kibben of
350.org.


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