Tag: climate change
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How Climate Change Impacts Children
The World Health Organization estimates that more than 88 percent of the existing global burden of disease due to climate change occurs in children less than five years of age.
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Confessions of a Climate Change Denier
The fight is about winning back the social safety net that has been slashed by the same economic and political elite that profits from fossil fuels …
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Global Banks Divest But U.S. Coal Exports Increase
With coal prices falling and natural gas prices rising, the EIA says coal’s share of U.S. power generation in the first four months of 2013 averaged 39.5 percent, compared with 35.4 percent in the same period…
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Top 10 Ways the House Environmental Spending Bill Would Ruin Your Summer
While millions of Americans are relaxing and unwinding at parks, on beaches and in backyards across the country this summer, the House Appropriations Committee is launching a massive assault on their public health …
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Radio Waves Carry News of Climate Change
Their research shows that the strength of radio signals on the ground is a reliable indicator of temperature change above. Prof. Price and his team used simple radio antennae on the ground to measure radio waves broadcast by navigational transmitters around the globe, then compared information on the strength of these radio signals with data…