Climate change challenge must be met with effective responses

Bad as it is to find out you’re sick, the cooler heads among us don’t go blaming the doctor. You probably knew you were sick anyway.
Now you’re just glad the doc has a plan to get you healthy again. That’s the proper attitude toward, and the reason to be grateful for, the reasonable tone and the prudent suggestions made by the 13 federal agencies that created the 2018 National Climate Assessment, released last week.
Was that release, on the Friday after Thanksgiving, inte