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U.S. Study Projects How 'Unequivocal Warming' Will Change Americans' Lives

"Climate change is already reshaping the United States, according to a new federal report that predicts global warming could have serious consequences for how Americans live and work.  Hotter temperatures, an increase in heavy downpours, and rising sea levels are among the effects of "unequivocal" warming, concludes the report by the U.S. Global Change Research Program."  [ClimateWire - New York Times]

Related:

  • "New US Climate Report Dire, But Offers Hope" [Associated Press]
  • "New Report Stresses Immediacy of Global Warming" [Hearst]
  • "Report on Warming Offers New Details" [Washington Post]
  • "From Bad to Worse" [TIME]
  • "Global Warming Affecting Every Corner of the US, Report Says" [Christian Science Monitor]
  • "Government Study Warns of Climate Change Effects" [New York Times]
  • "White House: Climate Change Happening Now" [NPR]

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Funds To Shut Nuclear Plants Fall Short

 "The companies that own almost half the nation's nuclear reactors are not setting aside enough money to dismantle them, and many may sit idle for decades and pose safety and security risks as a result."  [Associated Press]

 

 

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  • Steven Earl Salmony wrote on June 25, 2009, 08:42AM : Flag this comment as inappropriate Flag this comment as inappropriate

    Dear Ben,

    Thanks for being there and for all the great work you are doing.

    At least to me, it appears the human community cannot keep growing in the unbridled ways we are now because the gigantic current scale and rapid expansion of human activities in the wondrous, finite world God blesses us to inhabit could become unsustainable soon. What worries me most is that many people do not yet even see what we have before us as a formidable predicament, let alone its forbidding and growing magnitude. From my humble vantage point, many too many leaders who do see the huge global challenges {climate destabilization is one of them} that could soon be confronted by the family of humanity have chosen not to speak of them, but to remain electively mute and in denial. Although I am an ageing old worry-wart whose sight is failing and faculties are diminishing, it is necessary for me to fulfill a "duty to warn" by reporting that I see the potential for a colossal, human-induced ecological wreckage looming on the horizon.

    Hopefully, I am mistaken.

    Always,

    Steve

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