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New Report Reveals The Severe Economic Impacts Climate Change Will Have In The South
Posted by ThinkProgress: Katie Valentine on July 28th, 2015
ThinkProgress: Climate change is set to hit the Southeast United States and Texas hard.
That`s the conclusion of a new report from the Risky Business Project, a nonprofit that focuses on the economic impacts of climate change. The report, which focused on 12 states - 11 states in the Southeastern United States plus Texas - found that the increased heat and humidity that these states are expected to experience as the climate changes will put the region`s recent manufacturing boom at risk.
"While the Southeast...
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Comments Off on New Report Reveals The Severe Economic Impacts Climate Change Will Have In The SouthScientists Say Tar Sands Development And Limiting Climate Change ‘Incompatible’
Posted by ThinkProgress: Katie Valentine on June 11th, 2015
ThinkProgress: More than 100 scientists from the U.S. and Canada called for a moratorium on the development of tar sands Wednesday, saying the carbon-intensive form of energy was "incompatible" with limiting climate change.
The scientists published a consensus statement laying out 10 reasons why mining of tar sands - an energy source that`s found largely in Alberta, Canada`s Athabasca region and whose mining has led to significant deforestation and forest degradation in the province - needs to be halted. Those...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Scientists Say Tar Sands Development And Limiting Climate Change ‘Incompatible’Almost Half North American Bird Species Threatened By Climate Change
Posted by ThinkProgress: Katie Valentine on September 9th, 2014
ThinkProgress: Nearly half the bird species in North America are threatened by climate change, according to a new report.
The report, published Monday by the National Audubon Society, found that as the the climate of North America changes, 126 bird species will lose more than half - with some at risk of losing 100 percent - of their current ranges by 2050, and will have no possibility of colonizing new areas if warming continues unabated. That`s about 21 percent of North America`s 650 or so bird species. On...
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