Droughts 'may lay waste' to parts of US

"We are close to a threshold in a very large number of American cities where uncomfortable heatwaves make cities uninhabitable," Field told the Senate's environment and public works committee.

The warnings were the first time Congress had been directly confronted with the growing evidence that the impact of climate change will be far more severe than revealed even in the UN's most recent report, in 2007. Full Story »

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Topics: Environment, Global Warming, U.S. Congress, Climate Change
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Feb 26, 2009 - 9:22 PM PST
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Feb 26, 2009 - 9:22 PM PST

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by Dwight Rousu - Feb. 26, 2009

The congress is finally being allowed to hear the testimony on climate change effects, and some of those are recounted here. The Inhofe skeptics are still alive and kicking against the science, and get their footnote.

How much money can we put into reducing carbon dioxide?

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