Climate Change
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Sixty six (66) million years ago, a 6-mile-wide space rock caused a tsunami in the Atlantic Ocean, along with earthquakes and landslides up and down what is now the Americas. A heat pulse baked the Earth, and the Tyrannosaurus rex and its compatriots died out, along with 75% of the planet’s species. There have in fact been 4…
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Warmer temperatures caused by climate change will have the biggest impact on the world’s poorest, most vulnerable people. Research shows that’s already happened over the last several decades. A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science found that in most poor countries, higher temperatures are more than 90% likely to have resulted in decreased economic output, compared…