| How the White House Thinks About Climate Change, in 7 Charts |
Click through to see the charts, and to download the full report as a .pdf. |
| Brad Plumer - The Washington Post |
| The latest Economic Report of the President (pdf) has a whole chapter on energy and climate change that’s worth reading as a window into how the White House thinks about the topic. Here’s the basic story in chart form: 1) If the world doesn’t tackle global warming soon, the United States will get uncomfortably hot. 'For example, according to the USGCRP estimates, under a high-emissions scenario, areas of the Southeast and Southwest that currently experience an average of 60 days a year with a high temperature above 90°F will experience 150 or more such days by the end of the century.†2) U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions are falling, but the country’s nowhere near on pace to meet its climate goals. Under the Copenhagen Accord, President Obama promised a 17 percent cut in emissions below 2005 levels by 2020. We’re not quite there. 3) Most of the recent drop ... |
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