{"id":23096,"date":"2018-11-24T21:22:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T21:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23096"},"modified":"2018-11-24T21:22:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T21:22:46","slug":"us-government-report-says-climate-change-exacerbating-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23096","title":{"rendered":"US government report says climate change exacerbating disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"64.5693693694\">\n<p>A congressionally mandated report from the US Global Change Research Program says extreme weather disasters are getting worse in the US and that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/issues\/climate-change.html\">climate change<\/a> is to blame.<\/p>\n<p>The multi-agency report said weather events will cost the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">US<\/a> economy hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century.<\/p>\n<p>Its conclusions conflict with the public statements of President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/11\/profile-president-donald-trump-161109050153947.html\">Donald Trump<\/a>, who called climate change a &#8220;hoax&#8221; and questioned global warming earlier this week because it was cold in the US and UK.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Mike Hanna reports from Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A congressionally mandated report from the US Global Change Research Program says extreme weather disasters are getting worse in the US and that climate change is to blame. The multi-agency report said weather events will cost the US economy hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century. Its conclusions conflict with the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}