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US government climate report: Climate change is real and our fault

And today saw the release of the fourth National Climate Assessment—an official summary of the current state of knowledge about climate change.

A group of US climate scientists volunteered to write the report, which gathers together the most recent peer-reviewed research into digestible conclusions about the causes and impacts of climate change.

A June 2017 draft was shared with The New York Times by someone who feared it might be censored by federal agencies during the final approval process.

An initial review of the highlighted main points of the report’s “executive summary” shows only a few insignificant wording changes from the June 2017 draft.

Similar to the structure of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment reports, this first section of the Climate Assessment focuses on the physical science of climate change.

The second half—which has not yet been finalized—will cover the impacts of climate change on the United States.

As the report makes clear, there is no reasonable doubt remaining that climate change is a story about human actions—not natural cycles. »

San Francisco Just Took a Huge Step Toward Internet Utopia

Authored by wired.com

Last week, San Francisco became the first major city in America to pledge to connect all of its homes and businesses to a fiber optic network.

You might think: Big deal, San Francisco is our tech capital, the last place that needs this.

San Francisco, after years of study, has finally gotten to the point of readiness to take this step. »

Will Ferrell reveals pitch for a scrapped Step Brothers sequel

Authored by avclub.com

Speaking with the New York Daily News, Ferrell says that he and McKay talked about doing another Step Brothers, but they “got sidetracked with other things.”.

Ferrell says Step Brothers 2 would’ve been about him and Reilly following their parents (Mary Steenburgen and Richard Jenkins) to a retirement community, where they would try to convince them that they had “earned the right to retire as well.”

That being said, Daddy’s Home 2 is coming out in just a few days, so maybe Ferrell holds the original Step Brothers to a higher standard than the original Daddy’s Home. »

Coal Only Supplied 2% of U.K. Electricity in the First Six Months of 2017

Authored by blogs.scientificamerican.com

According to data from the U.K. government, coal-fired power plants only supplied 2% of electricity in the United Kingdom during the first six months of 2017.

This is a stark contrast to just five years ago, where coal supplied about 40% of the U.K.’s electricity needs each year.

At the same time, renewables have quickly ramped up and now supply a quarter of electricity in the country. »