White House backs report at odds with its climate stance

The report was approved for release by the White House, but the findings come as the Trump administration is defending its climate change policies

Directly contradicting much of the Trump administration’s position on climate change, 13 federal agencies unveiled an exhaustive scientific report on Friday that says humans are the dominant cause of the global temperature rise that has created the warmest period in the history of civilisation.

Over the past 115 years global average temperatures have increased 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, leading 

to record-breaking weather events and temperature extremes, the report says. The global, long-term warming trend is “unambiguous,” it says, and there is “no convincing alternative explanation” that anything other than humans — the cars we drive, the power plants we operate, the forests we