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Pediatricians say climate conversations should be part of any doctor’s visit

Grist

The reality of climate change came home for Dr. Samantha Ahdoot one summer day in 2011 when her son was 9 years old. Because their bodies cool themselves less efficiently than adults, children remain more susceptible to heat-related illness as they grow. There was a heat wave.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

This is where Jacobson’s story takes on a cinematic glow, which I wrote about for HuffPost in 2011. On the evening of July 10, 2011, Jacobson attended a swanky event in San Francisco. It would be the first clean energy roadmap that Jacobson would draft, and he did it on the evening of September 13, 2011. The Solutions Project.

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Will the West’s giant fires spark a climate awakening?

Grist

But, according to polling, only about three-quarters of Americans believe that global warming is happening — and less than two-thirds understand that it is human-caused. According to Yale researchers, 69 percent of the state’s inhabitants believe that global warming is increasing the severity of wildfires.

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How does climate change threaten where you live? A region-by-region guide.

Grist

This report, a collaboration between more than a dozen federal agencies and a wide array of academic researchers, takes stock of just how severe global warming has become and meticulously breaks down its effects by geography — 10 distinct regions in total, encompassing all of the country’s states and territories.

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Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition

DeSmogBlog

.” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming. Since 2011, the whales’ deaths—largely from ship strikes and entanglements in fishing gear—have outpaced births.