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As Trump Resists Climate Action, Many States Take Matters Into Their Own
Hands

Steve Baragona

   WASHINGTON - A day after the Trump administration announced its formal
   withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, more than 11,000
   scientists declared a climate emergency.

   On Tuesday, the journal BioScience published an [1]article from the
   Alliance of World Scientists excoriating world governments for inaction
   on climate change.

   "Despite 40 years of global climate negotiations, with few exceptions,
   we have generally conducted business as usual and have largely failed
   to address this predicament," the report says. "The climate crisis has
   arrived and is accelerating faster than most scientists expected."

   The report lays out the climbing temperatures, rising sea levels,
   growing wildfires, and increasingly severe weather that are "more
   severe than anticipated, threatening natural ecosystems and the fate of
   humanity."

References

   1. https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biz088/5610806

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