By Paul Homewood
h/t Dennis Ambler
The Environmental Protection Agency has revived its dashboard of key climate change indicators after four years with no updates.
From spikes in summer heat waves to sea level rise to the loss of melting ice sheets, the EPA says the data shows “compelling and clear evidence of changes to our climate.”
EPA Administrator Michael Regan stressed the danger to the entire country.
“Americans are seeing and feeling the impacts up close with increasing regularity,” Regan told reporters Wednesday, according to the Washington Post.
Here are some of the key impacts singled out by the EPA:
-Major U.S. cities average six heat waves a year, three times more than in the ’60s.
-Global concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide are unprecedented.
-Sea levels rose more than 8 inches along parts of the mid-Atlantic and Gulf coasts between 1960 and 2020.
-Arctic sea ice…
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