Scientists reporting in the National Climate Assessment report that the effects of climate change are already being felt across the United States in the form of extreme weather events and natural disasters.

“Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present,” they write in their report, available at http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/.

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