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Thu, 2011-06-23 09:24 — mdmcdonald
The Climate Change working group is focused on bringing climate science to effective regulatory policy and stimulating the growth of a green economy.

The mission of the Climate Change is to bring climate science to effective regulatory policy and stimulating the growth of a green economy.

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Americans by 2 to 1 Would Pay More to Curb Climate Change

Wed, 2014-06-18 00:34 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

The U.S. Capitol Building stands past the natural gas and coal fueled Capitol Power Plant, which provides heating and cooling throughout the 23 facilities on Capitol Hill including House and Senate Office Buildings, in Washington, D.C.  Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

bloomberg.com - by Lisa Lerer - June 10, 2014

Americans are willing to bear the costs of combating climate change, and most are more likely to support a candidate seeking to address the issue.

By an almost two-to-one margin, 62 percent to 33 percent, Americans say they would pay more for energy if it would mean a reduction in pollution from carbon emissions, according to the Bloomberg National Poll.

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Map Shows Energy Installations In Extreme Weather’s Path

Mon, 2014-06-16 18:48 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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The U.S. Energy Mapping System shows the web of natural gas pipelines, power plants and refineries that spread across the Louisiana Gulf Coast both on and off shore, an area hit hard by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.  Credit: EIA

climatecentral.org - by Bobby Magill - June 12, 2014

Imagine living near the Jersey Shore and a hurricane is barrelling in your direction, or living along the South Platte River in Colorado and an unexpected torrential downpour is flooding the river.

Are there natural gas, oil pipelines or electricity transmission lines that could break and leak in the flood or storm surge? Are oil and gas wells nearby that could flood and leach hydrocarbons into the river?

Those answers can be found online using the U.S. Energy Information Administration's interactive U.S. Energy Mapping System, which shows all the major energy infrastructure for any given address in the U.S.

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Climate Change Indicators in the United States, 2014 - Third Edition

Mon, 2014-06-02 23:44 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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CLICK HERE - Climate Change Indicators in the United States, 2014 - Third Edition

emergencyemail.org - May 29, 2014

For the second time this month, and now from a second branch of the US Government, citizens are being warned about climate change.  The first warning came earlier this month from the President's office.

Now the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just released the third edition of a report, Climate Change Indicators in the United States.

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Focus: Water risks in the private sector

Sat, 2014-05-31 13:40 — Maeryn Obley

nature.com

Growing population and increasing demand for higher living standards have led to the overuse of water resources.

More recently, the management of watersheds has been threatened by the impacts of climate change on the water cycle.

In the face of these challenges, water companies and agribusinesses need to seek solutions.

In this focus, Nature Climate Change presents four opinion pieces that discuss the risks and opportunities posed to private companies by water scarcity, highlight the steps some companies have already taken and, overall, the actions still required.

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How Rising Seas Could Sink Nuclear Plants On The East Coast

Tue, 2014-05-27 21:51 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

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House Directs Pentagon To Ignore Climate Change

Sat, 2014-05-24 17:05 — Kathy Gilbeaux

            

huffingtonpost.com - by Kate Sheppard - May 23, 2014

WASHINGTON -- The House passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization bill on Thursday that would bar the Department of Defense from using funds to assess climate change and its implications for national security.

The amendment, from Rep. David McKinley (R-W.Va.), passed in what was nearly a party-line vote. . . The bill aims to block the DOD from taking any significant action related to climate change or its potential consequences.

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CLICK HERE - Amendment from Rep. David McKinley (R-W.Va.) - (1 page .PDF file)

CLICK HERE - Bill Text - H.R. 4435

CLICK HERE - Final Vote Results - H.R. 4435 - May 22, 2014

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Climate Change Deemed Growing Security Threat by Military Researchers

Thu, 2014-05-15 21:09 — Kathy Gilbeaux

CLICK HERE - STUDY - National Security and the Accelerating Risks of Climate Change

nytimes.com - by Coral Davenport - May 13, 2014

WASHINGTON — The accelerating rate of climate change poses a severe risk to national security and acts as a catalyst for global political conflict, a report published Tuesday by a leading government-funded military research organization concluded.

The CNA Corporation Military Advisory Board found that climate change-induced drought in the Middle East and Africa is leading to conflicts over food and water and escalating longstanding regional and ethnic tensions into violent clashes. . .

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We Don't Know What Normal Is Anymore: Confronting Extreme Weather on U.S. Farms

Sat, 2014-05-10 17:31 — Kathy Gilbeaux

huffingtonpost.com - by Claire O'Connor - May 3, 2014

Matt Russell has seen strange weather before. As a fifth-generation Iowa farmer, he’s used to being at the whims of the skies. But ominous changes are underway at his Coyote Run Farm, and lately, he’s been trying to cope with “the wrong weather at the wrong time.”

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Climate Change Study Finds U.S. Is Already Widely Affected

Tue, 2014-05-06 10:50 — Kathy Gilbeaux

   

     

A deluge last week destroyed a section of the Scenic Highway in Pensacola, Fla. Credit Brantly S. Keiek, via Associated Press

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nytimes.com - by Justin Gillis - May 6, 2014

The effects of human-induced climate change are being felt in every corner of the United States, scientists reported Tuesday, with water growing scarcer in dry regions, torrential rains increasing in wet regions, heat waves becoming more common and more severe, wildfires growing worse, and forests dying under assault from heat-loving insects. . .

. . . “Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present,” the scientists declared in a major new report assessing the situation in the United States.

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CLICK HERE - REPORT - Climate Change Impacts in the United States - U.S. National Climate Assessment

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The Change Within: The Obstacles We Face Are Not Just External

Tue, 2014-04-22 22:22 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

(Reuters/China Daily)

The climate crisis has such bad timing, confronting it not only requires a new economy but a new way of thinking.

thenation.com - by Naomi Klein - April 21, 2014

This is a story about bad timing. . .

. . . We too are suffering from a terrible case of climate-related mistiming, albeit in a cultural-historical, rather than a biological, sense. Our problem is that the climate crisis hatched in our laps at a moment in history when political and social conditions were uniquely hostile to a problem of this nature and magnitude—that moment being the tail end of the go-go ’80s, the blastoff point for the crusade to spread deregulated capitalism around the world.

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