{"id":352,"date":"2017-08-16T21:30:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T01:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/?p=352"},"modified":"2017-08-16T21:30:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T01:30:15","slug":"new-climate-report-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/new-climate-report-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"New Climate Report draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2017\/08\/08\/climate\/nine-takeaways-climate-report.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fclimate&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=climate&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;contentPlacement=2&amp;pgtype=sectionfront\">New York Times reported August 9<\/a>\u00a0on a draft of the national climate assessment, required by Congress to be updated every 4 years. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2017\/08\/07\/climate\/document-Draft-of-the-Climate-Science-Special-Report.html\">673-page draft report <\/a>focuses on changes already observed in the US, including increasing intensity of precipitation in the Northeast (first figure below) and increasing likelihood of drought in snowpack-dependent California. A related story reports that summers in the United States <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2017\/07\/28\/climate\/more-frequent-extreme-summer-heat.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fclimate&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=climate&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;contentPlacement=5&amp;pgtype=sectionfront\">really are\u00a0getting hotter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2017\/08\/NYT-precip-change-map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-353\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2017\/08\/NYT-precip-change-map-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2017\/08\/NYT-precip-change-map-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2017\/08\/NYT-precip-change-map.jpg 477w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-354\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2017\/08\/summer-temperature-ranges-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2017\/08\/summer-temperature-ranges-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2017\/08\/summer-temperature-ranges-768x389.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2017\/08\/summer-temperature-ranges.jpg 811w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Source NY Times<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reported August 9\u00a0on a draft of the national climate assessment, required by Congress to be updated every 4 years. 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