Friday Nite Videos -- September 9, 2016
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Sea levels would rise by 216 feet if all the land ice on the planet were to melt. This would dramatically reshape the continents and drown many of the world's major cities.
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This powerful visualisation of climate change by climatologist Ed Hawkins plots the global average temperature for every month since 1850. The farther from the center, the hotter the month.
Americans have often been told that meeting climate targets is impossible without threatening jobs and costing a fortune. But the Climate, Jobs, and Justice Project shows that the opposite is true. The Clean Energy Future represents a pathway away from climate destruction that is far better for workers and consumers than our current economy based on fossil fuels.
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