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White House issues climate report 4 years late
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Posted Thu May 29, 2008 12:07pm PDT

In this file photo originally provided by Paramount Pictures Classics, Al Gore is shown in a scene from his documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth.' Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli says operatic treatment of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' will help people see the world's environmental predicament from a fresh point of view. 'Opera makes you reflect,' he said in a phone interview Friday, May 30, 2008. He is working on an opera based on 'An Inconvenient Truth,' Gore's book and film about climate change. (AP Photo/Paramount Classics, Eric Lee)
WASHINGTON - Under a court order and four years late, the White House Thursday produced what it called a science-based "one-stop shop" of specific threats to the United States from man-made global warming.

While the report has no new science in it, it pulls together different U.S. studies and localizes international reports into one comprehensive document required by law. The 271-page report is notable because it is something the Bush administration has fought in the past.

Andrew Weaver, a Canadian climate scientist who was not involved in the effort, called it "a litany of bad news in store for the U.S."

And biologist Thomas Lovejoy, one of the scientists who reviewed the report for the federal government, said: "It basically says the America we've known we can no longer count on. It's a pretty dramatic picture of all kinds of change rippling through natural systems across the country. And all of that has implications for people."

White House associate science director Sharon Hays, in a teleconference with reporters, declined to characterize the findings as bad, but said it is an issue the administration takes seriously. She said the report was comprehensive and "communicates what the scientists are telling us."

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