By Eric Betz | Arizona Daily Sun
Climate change is a problem now, not just in the future.
That’s the takeaway from a major report published on Tuesday by the U.S government and conducted over the course of years by a large cross-disciplinary panel of scientists.
Many reports have described the impacts of a changing planet in terms of future projections. The difference with the National Climate Assessment is that it brings the language into the present. Instead of only conveying projected slight changes in long-term averages, the report discusses extreme events already being experienced across the country, as well as stark changes for the future.
