Tag: climate change
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Taxpayers Billed Nearly $100 Billion for Extreme Weather in 2012
National Resources Defense Council By Dan Lashof With all the debate on the federal budget in Congress, climate change rarely gets mentioned as a deficit driver. Yet dealing with climate disruption was one of the largest non-defense discretionary budge…
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New Yorkers Tell Obama: No Keystone XL, Yes Renewables
Sane Energy Project Yesterday, when President Obama came to New York City for a fundraiser at the Waldorf Astoria hotel, more than 500 people were there to greet him. They came in force with signs and banners to remind him of their opposition to the Ke…
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Carbon Emissions: How Does Your State Score?
U.S. ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION — Between 2000 and 2010, carbon dioxide emissions fell in 32 states and rose in 18 states. However, from 2009 to 2010, only 14 states saw a decrease in emissions …
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Current Reports on Climate Change Issues
Research published today in the journal Nature Climate Change looked at 50,000 globally widespread and common species and found that more than one half of the plants and one third of the animals will lose more than half of their climatic range by 2080 if nothing is done to reduce the amount of global warming…
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Part I: How the Media Help the Koch Brothers and ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS — When it comes to climate, the Oil Eight share the same goals as their corporate underwriters: sow doubt about the reality or seriousness of global warming …