Climate Change and Global Warming - Four Out Of Five Americans Live In Areas Hit By Extreme Weather

A new report reveals that four out of five Americans live in a region that has been hit by some type of extreme weather event.

Wildfires, floods, hurricanes, droughts and heat waves are all part of the meteorological events that were focused on in the report that was conducted by the Environment America Research & Policy Center-a group of state-based, citizen-funded environmental advocacy organizations.

The organization suggests global warming has the potential to cause increasingly more occurrences of severe weather in the future and reported that 80 percent of Americans live in an area that has been hit with at least one extreme weather event within the last six years.

"Hundreds of millions of Americans have endured extreme weather causing extremely big problems for our nation's health, safety, environment and economy," said Nathan Willcox, federal global warming program director for the Environment Research & Policy Center.

"Given that global warming will likely fuel even more extreme weather, we need to cut dangerous carbon pollution now."

Willcox also emphasized that actions need to be taken in regard to reducing carbon pollution.

"Extreme weather is happening, it is causing very serious problems, and global warming increase the likelihood that we'll see even more extreme weather in the future," Willcox said.

"Carbon pollution from our power plants, cars and trucks is fueling global warming, and so tackling the problem demands that we cut emissions of carbon pollution from these sources."

READ THE FULL REPORT HERE: "In The Path of the Storm"

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