White House issues climate report 4 years late

May 29, 2008 By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer

(AP) -- 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.

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