{"id":1673,"date":"2020-07-21T17:58:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T17:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cjnrc.org\/?page_id=1673"},"modified":"2020-07-22T13:52:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T13:52:14","slug":"climate-change","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cjnrc.org\/climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1>Climate Change<\/h1>\n<p>The science is undebatable: human activity is changing the climate. And the consequences are a staggering onslaught of storms, droughts, floods, wildfires, and record-breaking temperatures more severe and less predictable than ever recorded, all of which are causing an enormous human and economic toll.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Without urgent and dramatic action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and pollution, <a href=\"https:\/\/nca2018.globalchange.gov\/\">scientists have warned that the U.S.<\/a> can expect $500 billion of damage, two billion hours of lost labor, and $160 billion in lost wages annually by 2090. That\u2019s because we will see more frequent and intense storms and flooding, extended heat waves, deeper droughts, and larger wildfires. Dramatic sea level rise will have a major impact on our coastal communities and essential infrastructure, too \u2013 for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/jun\/26\/rising-seas-florida-climate-change-elizabeth-rush\">South Florida won\u2019t exist in 2100<\/a>,&#8221; according to Lara Skinner, Executive Director of The Worker Institute at Cornell and Chair of the institute&#8217;s Labor Leading on Climate Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Fossil fuels \u2013 and the greenhouse gas emissions that burning them sends into the atmosphere \u2013 are the leading cause of climate change and threaten our very ability to live on the planet. That\u2019s no exaggeration. Without urgent action, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/news\/infographic\/2018\/03\/19\/groundswell---preparing-for-internal-climate-migration.\">World Bank estimates more than 100 million climate refugees by 2050.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Urgent and unprecedented changes are needed within the next ten years to reach the target, which they say is affordable and feasible although it lies at the most ambitious end of the Paris Agreement pledge to keep temperatures between 1.5C and 2C, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/sites\/default\/files\/english_paris_agreement.pdf\">UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Climate Change The science is undebatable: human activity is changing the climate. And the consequences are a staggering onslaught of storms, droughts, floods, wildfires, and record-breaking temperatures more severe and less predictable than ever recorded, all of which are causing an enormous human and economic toll. &#8220;Without urgent and dramatic action to reduce greenhouse&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Climate Change - Climate Jobs National Resource Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cjnrc.org\/climate-change\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Climate Change - Climate Jobs National Resource Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Climate Change The science is undebatable: human activity is changing the climate. 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