The Climate Report: National Climate Assessment-Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States, U S Global Change Research Program

The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is mandated by law at least every four years ... to submit to the President and the Congress an assessment regarding the findings of ... the effects of global change, and current and major long-term trends in global change. This year, the report was released in the wake of a series of some of the most devastating hurricanes in American history, as well as the horrific California wildfires. As the report says, The assumption that current and future climate conditions will resemble the recent past is no longer valid.