Climate Change Report Analysis-Ren Shimada

Climate change as we all know has caused us to rethink many of the things that we do every day that create long-term effects on our climate and weather. Even though we have started to implement more policies and started actively working to reduce our emmissions, climate change is still consistently getting worse. The new U.S. Climate Assessment shows us this. Temperatures are still rising, sea levels are steadily rising as ice caps in the Arctic melt, and more and more cities and countries are facing extreme weather. Many of the predictions and theories from previous Climate Assessments are now proving to be accurate. Flooding has become a larger problem in the past few years for many places in the U.S. and other countries in Europe and Asia. All of these factors are connected and are going to keep getting worse. Since the U.S. pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord in 2017, there have been many changes and rollbacks to policies on climate. The reason for this is because, during the 2016 elections, the Trump campaign advocated for the working class voters in the coal and oil industries which provided a great amount of funding. Because of this, we have seen these changes in policies created in previous years which would help the oil industry and the dying coal industry.  Instead of moving in this direction we absolutely must get back on the right track. Climate change is no longer an issue for the future because it is affecting all of us now. The good news is that more people recognize that climate change is a real relevant issue which is a small step of many more to come to get to where we need.

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