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California Gov. Brown toughens climate change goal
Posted by Desert Sun: Editorial on May 9th, 2015
Desert Sun: Gov. Jerry Brown has been busy of late pushing California forward on a number of environmental fronts.
The governor -- who began his new term challenging the state to ramp up to where it gets 50 percent of its electricity from renewable sources in the next 15 years -- preempted Wednesday’s adoption of rules for his drought-response mandate with another initiative in recent days related to climate change.
Last week’s executive order sets a target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent...
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Our Voice: Climate change is real
Posted by Desert Sun: Editorial on June 22nd, 2014
Desert Sun: Increasing temperatures are having a slow but dramatic affect on plants, animals and people in the Coachella Valley and surrounding areas.
As part of a three-part series on climate change, a Desert Sun analysis of more than 30 weather stations throughout the Southwest found that average monthly temperatures were 1.7 degrees hotter in the past 20 years than the average in the decades before 1960. Nighttime lows rose an average 3 degrees. Palm Springs is 3.4 degrees hotter and nighttime lows are...