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Georgia gets more electricity from coal than any other source

  • Published: May 19th, 2009 in Energy

Sea level rise threatens plant life in estuaries and salt marshes

  • Published: May 19th, 2009 in Impacts

Increased salinity is a danger to blue crabs

  • Published: May 19th, 2009 in Impacts

Global sea level could rise over three feet this century

  • Published: May 19th, 2009 in Impacts

Estuaries support most US seafood

  • Published: May 19th, 2009 in Impacts

The longest-running effort to track atmospheric CO2 began in 1958

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are increasing

Fossil fuel use has driven the recent jump in atmospheric CO2

CO2 levels in the atmosphere help set the planet’s temperature

The planet “breathes”

  • Published: June 1st, 2008 in Causes

CO2 put in the air by burning fossil fuels has a chemical signature

  • Published: June 1st, 2008 in Causes

Climbing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are causing global warming

  • Published: May 19th, 2009 in Basics

Coal generates almost half the CO2 humans put in the atmosphere

  • Published: May 19th, 2009 in Energy

The planet could warm 7°F this century if current trends continue

The US could warm 9°F this century if current trends continue

The US federal government has ruled that CO2 is a pollutant

Low-carbon coal plants need more coal for the same power output

  • Published: May 19th, 2009 in Energy

Coal is the least expensive fossil fuel

  • Published: May 19th, 2009 in Energy

The US has more than a 100-year coal supply

  • Published: May 19th, 2009 in Energy

China and India have lots of coal

  • Published: May 19th, 2009 in Energy

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