Climate change to inflict 'substantial damages' on US lives, major report to warn

'Impacts of climate change are intensifying across the country'Draft outlines claim current response to crisis is insufficientClimate change is already harming Americans' lives with "substantial damages" set to occur as global temperatures threaten to surge beyond internationally agreed limits, a major US government report is set to warn.The influence of climate change is being felt across the US with increases in disastrous wildfires in the west, flooding on the east coast, soil loss in the midwest and coastal erosion in Alaska, a draft of the US national climate assessment states. Continue reading...