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 Stories About: climate AND climate change impacts AND Muckraker AND politics
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Bush administration climate report ... at last
Overdue federal report acknowledges climate-change realities |
Kate Sheppard |
30 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Under pressure from a court order, the Bush administration put out a new report on climate change yesterday that comes to the conclusion that 'most of the recent global warming is very likely due to human-generated increases in greenhouse gas concentrations.' The report covers familiar (to anyone who's been paying attention) ground -- the impacts of climate change on the environment, economy, and public health. A 1990 law requires that presidents submit a report t ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Muckraker, politics (all these topics) |
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The Warm on Terror
Bipartisan bill calls for intelligence assessment of climate impacts |
Amanda Griscom Little |
05 Apr 2007 |
Muckraker |
| How might U.S. national security be threatened by mega-droughts, coastal flooding, killer hurricanes, food scarcity, and the other ecological calamities scientists widely predict will occur if global warming continues apace? Is climate change the real ticking bomb? Photo: iStockphoto No one knows, but Sens. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) think it's time to f ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, legislation, Muckraker, national security, politics (all these topics) |
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