Here’s how The Washington Post broke some of the findings down:
The report suggests that by 2050, the country could see as much as 2.3 additional degrees of warming in the continental United States. By that same year, in a high-end global-warming scenario, coral reefs in Hawaii and the U.S. Pacific territories could be bleaching every single year — conditions in which their survival would be in severe doubt. A record-warm year like 2016 would become routine.
Key crops, including corn, wheat and soybeans, would see declining yields as temperatures rise during the growing season. The city of Phoenix, which experienced about 80 days per year over 100 degrees around the turn of the century, could see between 120 and 150 such days per year by the end of the century, depending on the pace of emissions.
And those who face the most suffering? Society’s most vulnerable, including “lower-income and other marginalized communities,” researchers found.
In another major step, the authors of the new report have begun to put dollar signs next to projected climate damage, specifically within the United States.
In a worst-case climate-change scenario, the document finds, labor-related losses by the year 2090 as a result of extreme heat — the sort that makes it difficult to work outdoors or seriously lowers productivity — could amount to an estimated $155 billion annually. Deaths from temperature extremes could take an economic toll of $141 billion per year in the same year, while coastal property damage could total $118 billion yearly, researchers found.
When asked about it, President Trump said he didn’t believe the report.
And border tensions heated up this week as well. ProPublica reported that children were still being separated from their family at the border, even though the Trump administration says that part of their “zero tolerance” policy is over.
President Trump also resurfaced the border wall debate, and threatened a government shutdown over funding for his pet project in an interview with Politico.
The Mueller probe also hasn’t gone away. President Trump’s former fixer and lawyer Michael Cohen pled guilty on Thursday to lying to Congress. Cohen also admitted that discussions about a planned Trump Tower in Moscow occurred well into the 2016 campaign.
Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort also made headlines this week, after Trump said a pardon for him was not off the table. The Mueller team also said this week that Manafort had broken his plea agreement by repeatedly lying to investigators, a charge which Manafort denies.
And The Guardian reported this week that Manafort met secretly with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2013, 2015 and 2016.
On Friday, Marriott announced that 500 million guest accounts had been compromised. Here’s what to know about your cyber safety.
We’ll take you into the weekend with this week’s top domestic news. Interview:
https://the1a.org/shows/2018-11-30/friday-news-roundup-domestic
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