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Wildfire smoke masks the sun as it sets over a ridge Saturday, June 22, 2013, near South Fork, Colo. Global warming is rapidly turning America into a stormy and dangerous place, with rising seas and disasters upending lives from flood-stricken Florida to the wildfire-ravaged West, according to a new U.S. federal scientific report released Tuesday, May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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A fire truck drives past trees burned during the Las Conchas fire in Los Alamos, N.M., Thursday, June 30, 2011. Global warming is rapidly turning America into a stormy and dangerous place, with rising seas and disasters upending lives from flood-stricken Florida to the wildfire-ravaged West, according to a new U.S. federal scientific report released Tuesday, May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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A wildfire burns in the hills just north of the San Gabriel Valley community of Glendora, Calif. on Thursday, Jan 16, 2014. Global warming is rapidly turning America into a stormy and dangerous place, with rising seas and disasters upending lives from flood-stricken Florida to the wildfire-ravaged West, the National Climate Assessment report concluded Tuesday, May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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FILE - In this June 27, 2011 file photo, floodwaters from the Souris River surround homes near Minot State University in Minot, N.D. Global warming is rapidly turning America the beautiful into America the stormy, sneezy and dangerous, according to the National Climate Assessment report released Tuesday, May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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Shop Foreman Sid Huhn, left, and General Manager Steven Hainline, right, walk near a row of burnt Cadillac Escalades at Tom Peacock Cadillac Tuesday, May 6, 2014, in Houston. The vehicles burned to the ground after a wreck sparked a fire igniting the Escalades on the lot. General Manager Steven Hainline said the damage totals nearly $750,000. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Cody Duty)
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A row of burnt Cadillac Escalades sit at Tom Peacock Cadillac Tuesday, May 6, 2014, in Houston. The vehicles burned to the ground after a wreck sparked a fire igniting the Escalades on the lot. General Manager Steven Hainline said the damage totals nearly $750,000. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Cody Duty)
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General Manager Steven Hainline walks near a row of burnt Cadillac Escalades at Tom Peacock Cadillac Tuesday, May 6, 2014, in Houston. The vehicles burned to the ground after a wreck sparked a fire igniting the Escalades on the lot. General Manager Steven Hainline said the damage totals nearly $750,000. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Cody Duty)
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A row of burnt Cadillac Escalades sit at Tom Peacock Cadillac Tuesday, May 6, 2014, in Houston. The vehicles burned to the ground after a wreck sparked a fire igniting the Escalades on the lot. General Manager Steven Hainline said the damage totals nearly $750,000. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Cody Duty)
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FILE - In this April 27, 2010 file photo, water diverted from East Maui runs down a ditch toward sugar cane fields at Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. plantation in Puunene, Hawaii. Sugar plantations began diverting water from the streams running through the lush hills and valleys of East Maui in 1876. Global warming will likely stress fresh water supplies in Hawaii and other Pacific islands, a national report on climate change said Tuesday, May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy, File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 31, 2013, file photo, sandbags are piled up in front of properties damaged by severe beach erosion in the Rocky Point neighborhood of Oahu's North Shore in Haleiwa, Hawaii. Global warming will likely stress fresh water supplies in Hawaii and other Pacific islands, a national report on climate change said Tuesday, May 6, 2014. In Hawaii, rising sea levels are expected to push salt water into aquifers that store the state's drinking water. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy, File) (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)
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FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2005, file photo, Inupiat hunter Karlin Itchoak coils the rope of a subsistence net after pulling in a beluga whale at Cape Nome near Nome, Alaska, at sunset. Global warming is rapidly turning America into a stormy and dangerous place, with rising seas and disasters upending lives from flood-stricken Florida to the wildfire-ravaged West, according to a new U.S. federal scientific report released Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Climate change's assorted harms "are expected to become increasingly disruptive across the nation throughout this century and beyond," the National Climate Assessment concluded. (AP Photo/Laurent Dick, File)