National Academies: Climate change's harms 'beyond scientific dispute'

In response to the Trump administration repeatedly saying otherwise, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine on Wednesday issued a report that emphasized that climate change’s harms are “beyond scientific dispute.”

The report from the National Academies, which seek to provide science that informs the government, comes as a rebuke to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to overturn a 2009 determination that planet-warming gases pose a threat to the public.

“The evidence for current and future harm to human health and welfare created by human-caused GHGs is beyond scientific dispute,” the report says, referring to greenhouse gases.

“Much of the understanding of climate change that was uncertain or tentative in 2009 is now resolved and new threats have b