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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)
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In this undated handout photo of a polar bear taken in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. More than two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be killed off by 2050 - the species completely gone from Alaska - because of thinning sea ice from global warming in the Arctic, government scientists forecast Friday. (AP Photo/Subhankar Banerjee, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2013, file photo, inmate firefighters walk along Highway 120 after a burnout operation as firefighters continue to battle the Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park, Calif. 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/Jae C. Hong, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2010, file photo, a slurry bomber drops fire retardant on a burning ridge as the sun sets behind it as a wildfire burns west of Loveland, 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. 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/Ed Andrieski, File)
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FILE -In this May 10, 2010 photo, an oil facility stands past dead trees on Isle de Jean Charles, La. 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/Patrick Semansky, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 24, 1992 file photo, a sailboat sits on a sidewalk at Dinner Key in Miami after it was washed ashore by Hurricane Andrew. 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 concluded Tuesday, May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Terry Renna, File)
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FILE -In this Wednesday April 30, 2014 file photo, a man walks near a portion of the Scenic Highway collapsed near Pensacola, Fla. 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/Pensacola News Journal, Katie E. King, File)
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In this photo taken in August 2013, John Syslo, left, examines a netted lake trout on the deck of the fishing boat Northwester as Yellowstone fisheries biologist Pat Bigelow takes notes on Yellowstone Lake in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Scientists say efforts to curb the population of the non-native fish appear to be working. (AP Photo/The Billings Gazette, Brett French)
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In this photo taken in August 2013, Yellowstone fisheries biologist Pat Bigelow looks over a crate of lake trout that were netted and removed from Yellowstone Lake in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Scientists say efforts to curb the population of the non-native fish appear to be working. (AP Photo/The Billings Gazette, Brett French)
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CORRECTS YEAR IMAGE WAS TAKEN TO 2013, NOT 2003 - In this photo taken on 2013 and released by the National Park Service, Philip Doepke, a fisheries biologist at Yellowstone National Park, holds a netted lake trout caught from Yellowstone Lake in Wyoming. Scientists say they voracious species of trout that entered Yellowstone Lake and decimated its native trout population appears to be in decline following efforts to kill off the invading fish. (AP Photo/National Park Service)
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CORRECTS YEAR IMAGE WAS TAKEN TO 2013, NOT 2003 - In this photo taken in 2013 and released by the National Park Service. Brian Ertel, a fisheries biologist at Yellowstone National Park, holds a netted lake trout caught from Yellowstone Lake in Wyoming. Scientists say they voracious species of trout that entered Yellowstone Lake and decimated its native trout population appears to be in decline following efforts to kill off the invading fish. (AP Photo/National Park Service)
