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WASHINGTON, March 9, 2009 (UPI)Wednesday’s pledge by lawmakers from both parties was to create a federal plan to “deliver tangible tools and resources” to combat climate change. This comes in the wake of recent climate reports, which highlighted the urgent need for carbon emission reductions.
“We don’t possess unlimited resources to accomplish this. “We have to be smart, targeted, and focused,” said Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.), chair of the House Select Committee on Climate Crisis. “At the moment, climate adaptation planning across the nation is done on an ad-hoc basis. It’s extremely inefficient.
This hearing took place just over a week following the publication of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report. Most recent reportThis report provided a grim and detailed assessment of the urgent global threats posed due to the warming climate.
“Any further delay on concerted anticipatory worldwide action,” the report stated, “will miss an extremely brief window of opportunity to secure sustainable and livable futures for all.”
The IPCC report was One of manyPublished since 2022, these images show the severe and widespread global climate change challenges.
At Wednesday’s HearTwo IPCC report authors testified to the urgent need to reduce carbon emissions, and prevent further global warming. The impacts of which are harming Americans who have been displaced by More oftenEnvironmental disasters and rising sea level
“North American cities have been impacted more frequently by severe and frequent climate hazards, extreme events, and which have contributed to infrastructure destruction, livelihood losses, damage of Heritage Resources, and safety concerns,” said William Solecki (co-author of the report) and an environmental science professor at Hunter College.
Recent hurricane seasons, such as, have been some The most expensive and busiestAccording to a February 2012 survey, 1 in 10 homes in the United States were affected by weather-related disasters. This caused property damage totalling more than $56 trillion. ReportCoreLogic is a property information and analysis company.
Experts said that the United States should adopt a dual-pronged approach in combating climate change. One that addresses the immediate needs of Americans displaced by climate-related events, and one that reduces carbon emissions over the next decade.
“There are many problems that need to be solved today, and we can’t distract our attention from them because people are involved.” [suffering]Lauren Augustine, executive direct of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s Gulf Research Program, stated that right now is the best time.” “But, at the same time we have to look down the road…there is a lot to be done.”
The war in Ukraine — and recent American decisions to Stop ImportsRussian oil — was a major topic at the hearing, especially when it came to potential plans to move away from fossil fuels and instead focus on renewable energy.
Rep. Garret Graves (Republican from Louisiana) supported climate action, but said now was not the right time to abandon fossil fuels, citing current circumstances. Record-high gas pricesGraves suggested the United States could tap into its oil reserves instead of looking to other oil producers, like Venezuela or Iran, to replace Russian oil. Vast oil reserves available.
However, this would only make the country more vulnerable to a future climate crisis. Experts and recent reports have said that it is only getting worse.
“I agree with” [Graves]Rep. Jared Huffman, D.Calif., stated that it is absurd to simply pivot to petro fascists of Venezuela or Iran, but it does not make sense to lock in decades more fossil fuel dependency on the United States, and other oil producers, at a moment when there is a climate crisis.
Experts and lawmakers agreed that, despite the dire warnings in the reports, there is still an opportunity to combat climate change.
Augustine stated that future generations will know what we knew, when we knew it, and how we acted. “In 100 Years, we want the people from that time to look back at us today with the conviction that we did the right things.”
