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Environmental

May 20, 2014

What can law do about climate disruption?

The take home message from the Third National Climate Assessment is pretty straightforward: Human-caused climate disruption is happening right now. By Patrick Parenteau


By Patrick Parenteau


The take home message from the Third National Climate Assessment is pretty straightforward: Human-caused climate disruption (a more accurate description than "climate change") is happening right now. Reading between the lines of the report are these stark realities: The West is frying; the East is drowning; Alaska is melting; and the oceans are acidifying. In short, things are not good and without aggressive action to reduce carbon ...

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