The science is settled. Our planet is heating up, and carbon pollution from Dirty Energy is to blame. The fossil fuel industry burns oil, coal and gas, sending heat-trapping emissions into the air. Ninety million tons of carbon pollution enter the atmosphere every day. That means a hotter world for all of us. It also leads to Dirty Weather, from extreme rainstorms to prolonged drought.
Nine of the ten hottest years on record were in the past twelve years. Just in recent months, extreme rainfall and floods have affected us everywhere on the planet - Calgary, Europe, India, Colorado. Superstorm Sandy devastated human lives and led to tens of billions of dollars in damages. The most severe droughts in decades spread over half the United States, Russia and China.
Carbon pollution is warming the earth, creating dirty weather. We are all paying for carbon pollution.
- Higher food prices
- Water scarcity
- Decreased water quality
- Property damage
- Loss of wildlife
- Ecological damage
- Higher insurance premiums
- More lyme disease
- Power outages
- Heat related illness
- Loss of wetlands
- Lower crop yields
Climate change is already happening, and it has entered our daily lives.
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