Revved-up climate change now permeates Americans' daily lives with harm that is 'already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the United States,' a massive new government report says. The National Climate Assessment, which comes out every four to five years, was released Tuesday with details that bring climate change's impacts down to a local level.
Overall, it paints a picture of a country warming about 60% faster than the world as a whole, one that regularly gets smacked with costly weather disasters and faces even bigger problems in the future. Since 1970, the Lower 48 states have warmed by 2.5 degrees and Alaska has heated up by 4.2 degrees, compared to the global average of 1.7 degrees, the report said. But what people really feel is not the averages, but when weather is extrem