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Report: Climate Change Heating Up N.J. Faster Than Almost All Other States Report: Climate Change Heating Up N.J. Faster Than Almost All Other States
Report: Climate Change Heating Up N.J. Faster Than Almost All Other States New Jersey's average annual temperature has risen by nearly 2 degrees Celsius since 1895, double the average for the lower 48 states, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.  Of all U.S. states, Alaska's average temperature has risen by the most, followed by Rhode Island and New Jersey. Other states in the Northeast, including Connecticut and Massachusetts, are close behind.  A temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius is regarded as a critical climate warming threshold. Scientists fear that if average global temperatures rise by 2 degrees above the 1895 average, the conseque…

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by Paul Milo
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Gov’t Report: Climate Change Will Cost U.S. Lives, Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars Gov’t Report: Climate Change Will Cost U.S. Lives, Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars
Gov’t Report: Climate Change Will Cost U.S. Lives, Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars Climate change isn’t just happening – it’s going to get much worse, warns a massive government report that proposes solutions that are severely at odds with President Trump’s policies. Extreme weather, changes in air quality and the spread of new diseases by insects will combine to cost the U.S. economy hundreds of billions of dollars in health, agricultural and infrastructure damage by the end of the century, warns Volume II of the National Climate Assessment, which was released Friday. "Earth’s climate is now changing faster than at any point in the history of modern civilization, primar…

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by Jerry DeMarco