Climate Change Report Released
By: Allison Morrison
Updated: June 16, 2009
A goverment study released once every 10 years, warns of climate change that could be caused by humans.
The study was prepared by the U.S. Global Change Research program and it warns the impact of global warming is expected to become more severe in the coming years, despite the nation's attempt to slow damaging gas emissions.
Texas Tech Associate Professor Katharine Hayhoe served as one of the lead authors of the report.
"Our hope and our intent with this report is this is a first attempt to give individual citizens the information that they need to understand this issue and to also realize how it is affecting us and how it's likely to affect us in the future," Katharine Hayhoe says.
Of course, there are many who dispute their findings, but the study concludes most of the climate change observed over the past 50 years, is a direct result of man-made heat trapping gas emissions.
