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No place in the US is safe from the climate crisis, but a new report shows where it's most severe

The effects of a rapidly warming climate change are being felt in every corner of the US and will worsen over the next 10 years with continued fossil fuel use, according to a stark new report from federal agencies.

The Fifth National Climate Assessment, a congressionally mandated report due roughly every five years, warned that even though planet-warming pollution in the US is slowly decreasing, it is not happening nearly as fast enough to meet the nation's targets, nor is it in line with the UN-sanctioned goal to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius − a threshold beyond which scientists warn life on Earth will struggle to cope.

This year's assessment reflects the reality that American can increasingly see and feel climate impacts in their own communities, said Katharine Hayhoe, a distinguished climate scientist at Texas Tech University and contributor to the report. "Climate change is affecting every aspect of our lives", Hayhoe told CNN. Some of the report's sweeping conclusions remain painfully familiar: no part of the US is truly safe from climate disasters; slashing fossil fuel use is critical to limit the consequences, but we're not doing it fast enough; and every fraction of a degree of warming leads to more intense impacts.

By Elisa Nilsen, November 14, 2023

Adapted from CNN. Available on

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/14/us/national-climate-

assessment-extreme-weather-costs/index.html Access on November 14, 2023.

Regarding the text above, mark the options with TRUE, FALSE or NOT GIVEN.

(__)The effects of a climate change are being felt in the entire world.

(__)The UN-sanctioned goal is to limit global warming in 1.5 degrees.

(__)Every part of the US is at risk of climate disasters.

(__)The amount of fossil fuel use in the US is decreasing.

After analysis, mark the alternative with the CORRECT sequence, from above to below.