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Weather Channel expert on Georgia’s record-smashing global-warming-type deluge 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Morocco’s unique vulnerability to climate change 1
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
With most of its economic activity near the coast, no legislation preventing building in the coastal zone and the government reportedly selling coastal land to developers at notional prices, climate change is a real threat to Morocco.
the spiraling cost of inaction

Global warming triggers more disasters 4
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
The ferocity of tropical storms and spread of wildfires will increase as the planet warms. Nonetheless, House opponents of the American Clean Energy and Security Act, H.R. 2454, spoke during the bill's June debate as if there were little urgency for action or costs to delay reductions in global warming pollution.
Hop on the ban wagon

Disposable-bag restrictions around the U.S. and the world 4
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Seattle is considering a fee on disposable bags, but that hardly gives the city green b(r)agging rights. Cities around the U.S. and countries around the world have already imposed bag bans for all sorts of eco-reasons.
GOP - the Gospel of Pollution

GOP Lobbyist: ‘As an article of Faith,’ it is ‘pretentious’ to believe in global warming 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) told GOP members of Congress on Capitol Hill yesterday that because "the Lord God almighty made the heavens and the Earth ... to his satisfaction ... it is quite pretentious of we little weaklings here on earth to think that, that we are going to destroy God's creation."
The karma of coal?

Climate change hits Australia with a vengeance 2
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Climate change-driven drought in Australia is leaving depression, despair, and suicide in its wake. The U.S. doesn't get this. Yet.