swamppolitics.com - 2/9/2009
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Chicago Tribune: Earlier this week, Energy Secretary Steven Chu caused a stir in the Golden State - and many circles across the country - with his warnings that global warming could spell the demise of California agriculture by century's end. Chu isn't a climate scientist - he's a Nobel-winning ...
latimes.com - 2/4/2009
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latimes.com —
Reporting from Washington -- California's farms and vineyards
could vanish by the end of the century, and...
its major cities could be in jeopardy, if Americans do not act to slow the advance of global warming, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said ...
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California farms, vineyards in peril from warming, U.S. ...
usatoday.com - 2/2/2009
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usatoday.com —
The snowpack was about 61% of its usual
depth across the 400-mile-long mountain range, according to the...
state Department of Water Resources, which released the findings as part of the second snow survey of the season. Department Director Lester Snow ...
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Calif. facing worst drought in modern history
latimes.com - 2/4/2009
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latimes.com —
Reporting from Washington -- California's farms and vineyards
could vanish by the end of the century, and...
its major cities could be in jeopardy, if Americans do not act to slow the advance of global warming, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said ...
(more)
California farms, vineyards in peril from warming, U.S. ...
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Stephen Chu’s full global warming interview: “This is a real economic disaster in the making for our children, for your children.”
Climate Progress —
... ). Now the reporter, Jim Tankersley, has posted online ( here) virtually the entire 40-minute interview, Chu’s first since being confirmed as secretary. Tankersley notes that: Chu isn’t a climate scientist — he’s a Nobel-winning physicist — but he’s served on several climate-change commissions, and in his position, will be one of President Obama’s point men on the climate issue. Chu has studied the climate science issue for years and talked to many of the leading climate scientists in coming to his conclusions. His full remarks are well worth reading, as a preview of what ...
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