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CELEBRITYCIPHER SUDOKU NEA CROSSWORD By Seth Borenstein TheAssociatedPress WASHINGTON Global warming is rapidly turning America the beautiful into America the stormy, sneezy and dangerous, according to a new federal scientific report. And those shining seas? Rising and costly, the report says. Climate change's assorted harms "are expected to be- come increasingly disruptive across the nation throughout this century and beyond," the National Climate As- sessment concluded Tues- day. The report emphasizes that warming and all-too- wild weather are changing daily lives, using the phrase "climate disruption" as an- other way of saying global warming. Still, it's not too late to prevent the worst of climate change, says the 840-page report, which the Obama administration is highlight- ing as it tries to jump-start often-stalled efforts to curb heat-trapping gases. Said White House science ad- viser John Holdren: "It's a good-news story about the many opportunities to take cost-effective actions to re- duce the damage." Release of the report, the third edition of a congressio- nally mandated study, gives President Barack Obama an opportunity to ground his campaign against climate change in science and num- bers, endeavoring to blunt the arguments of those who question the idea and hu- mans' contributions to such changes. The White House and its allies also hope that by drilling down on local ef- fects, the report will help Americans identify with specific impacts that are af- fecting their lives, Later this summer, the administration plans to propose new reg- ulations restricting gases that come from existing coal- fired power plants. Not everyone is per- suaded. Some fossil energy groups, conservative think tanks and Republican sen- ators immediately assailed the report as "alarmist." Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Ken- tucky said Obama was likely to "use the platform to re- new his call for a national en- ergy tax. And I'm sure he'll get loud cheers from liberal elites — from the kind of peo- ple who leave a giant carbon footprint and then lecture everybody else about low- flow toilets." Obama'sefforts Sincetakingoffice,Obama has not proposed a specific tax on fossil fuel emissions. He has proposed a system that caps emissions and al- lows companies to trade car- bon pollution credits, but it failed in Congress. Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana said the report was supposed to be scientific but "it's more of a political one used to justify government overreach." Leaders in the fossil fuel industry, which is respon- sible for a large amount of the heat-trapping carbon dioxide, said their energy is needed and America can't afford to cut back on it. "Whether you agree or disagree with the report, the question is: What are you going to do about it? To us that is a major question," said Charlie Drevna, pres- ident of the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufac- turers. He called the report "overblown." The report — which is full of figures, charts and other research-generated graph- ics — includes 3,096 foot- notes to other mostly peer- reviewed research. It was written by more than 250 scientists and government officials, starting in 2012. A draft was released in Jan- uary 2013, but this version has been reviewed by more scientists, including twice by the National Academy of Sciences which called it "reasonable," and "a valu- able resource." CLIMATE CHANGE Report:WarmingdisruptsAmericans'lives Study notes it's not too late to help slow the damage Correction Answers to Saturday puzzles By David Espo The Associated Press WASHINGTON North Car- olina Republicans sorted through their choices to challenge Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan on Tuesday, and Speaker John Boehner sought re-nomination to Congress from Ohio, first in a springtime spate of prima- ries pitting the GOP estab- lishment against tea party challengers. Indiana also picked candi- dates for the November elec- tions, when control of Con- gress will be at stake for the final two years of the Presi- dent Barack Obama's tenure in the White House. Several Republican House incumbents drew strong pri- mary challenges, includ- ing Reps. Walter Jones of North Carolina, David Joyce of Ohio and Susan Brooks of Indiana. Also in North Carolina, both parties held primaries to pick candidates for a spe- cial election to replace for- mer Rep. Melvin Watt in a heavily Democratic seat, and former "American Idol" run- ner-up Clay Aiken was one of three contenders for the Democratic nomination to oppose Republican Rep. Re- nee Ellmers in the fall. Tuesday marked the be- ginning of the political pri- mary season in earnest, and over the next several months Republicans will hold more contests featuring incum- bents or other establish- ment figures against tea party challengers. Some of the races are in states where simply the name on the bal- lot in the fall might mean the difference between victory and defeat this fall, such as Alaska, Georgia, Iowa and Kentucky. Republican victo- ries seem secure to varying degrees in some other states, including Kansas, Missis- sippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma and South Carolina. In the marquee race of the night, North Carolina House SpeakerThomTillis,obstetri- cian Greg Brannon and Mark Harris, a Baptist pastor, led a fieldofeightcandidatesvying fortherighttotakeonHagan, a top target for Republicans angling forcontrol of the Sen- ate in the fall. 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