Posted by
Average Voter on Saturday, May 31, 2008 10:04:05 AM
Better
late than never, right? Why did they have to do this in the first place? (
Click here for the 1990 global change research act)
Under a 1990 law, presidents must submit a report to Congress every four years summarizing what is known about impacts of climate change and other global environmental problems on the United States.
The report repeats the same ridiculous scenerios that is common with any written summarization of global warming.
They did add a few exrtra things:
But the report included new projections of how the poor, elderly and communities with lagging public-health and public-works systems will face outsize health risks from warming.
Among the report’s new conclusions on health: “An increased frequency and severity of heat waves is expected, leading to more illness and death, particularly among the young, elderly, frail and poor.” It added that deaths from cold would decline, but said uncertainties on both projections made it impossible to characterize the overall risk.
I guess by law you got to do it, so you might as well add to the hysterics.