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Their wordsChapter 9 on agriculture shows that increasing CO2 and warming is expected to be a net benefit to US agriculture
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U.S. policy actions are expected to have undetectably small direct impacts on the global climate.
Their wordsChapter 12 concludes that U.S. policy actions are expected to have undetectably small direct impacts on the global climate and any effects will emerge only with long delays.
Their wordsAlthough there is little to no link between extreme weather events and fossil-fueled warming (see the CWG Report), the U.S. currently has substantial vulnerabilities (and electric utility systems are hugely vulnerable to extreme weather events).
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