Breaking down the new National Climate Assessment findings - CBS News
Breaking down the new National Climate Assessment findings - CBS News
Breaking down the new National Climate Assessment findings
The fifth National Climate Assessment report was published Tuesday as President Biden unveiled new funding to combat the effects of climate change on infrastructure and susceptible communities. CBS News senior national and environmental correspondent Ben Tracy looks at the report's findings.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.