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WASHINGTON, Aug 8, (APP/AFP) – Average US temperatures
have risen dramatically and fast, with recent decades the warmest of the past 1,500 years, according to a draft federal government report cited by The New York Times on Tuesday.
“Americans are feeling the effects of climate change right now,” said
the report by 13 federal agencies not yet released or approved by President Donald Trump’s administration.
The report “directly contradicts claims by President Trump and
members of his cabinet who say that the human contribution to climate change is uncertain and that the ability to predict the effects is limited,” the Times said.
The draft report, part of the United States National Climate
Assessment, is done every four years. It has been signed by the National Academy of Sciences.
“How much more the climate will change depends on future emissions
and the sensitivity of the climate system to those emissions,” the draft report states in the Times article.
The United States just announced Friday it would still take part in
international climate change negotiations in order to protect its interests,
despite its planned withdrawal from the Paris accord on global warming.
Two months after Trump announced the United States would abandon the
2015 global pact, his administration confirmed it had informed the United Nations of its “intent to withdraw from the Paris Agreement”