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A Trump Insider Embeds Climate Denial in Scientific Research – The New York Times

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An Interior Department official has pressed scientists to include misleading climate language—including debunked claims that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is beneficial—into their work.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/climate/goks-uncertainty-language-interior.html

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Sandy coastlines under threat of erosion | Nature Climate Change

Boo! Science.

Here, we show that ambient trends in shoreline dynamics, combined with coastal recession driven by sea level rise, could result in the near extinction of almost half of the world’s sandy beaches by the end of the century.
— Read on www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0697-0

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Elizabeth Warren Targets Wall Street in New Climate Change Plan

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren targeted Wall Street in her latest plan to combat climate change, saying she would ensure that banks, asset managers and insurers “pay the true cost of climate change.” According to Warren, this would require making big changes to how Wall Street currently does business.
— Read on earther.gizmodo.com/elizabeth-warren-targets-wall-street-in-new-climate-cha-1842013134