UPDATE SEPT. 2009: State govt. still has done little on this front. Representative Pricey Harrison 57th District North Carolina General Assembly For Immediate Release May 3, 2005 Contact on the bill: Representative Pricey Harrison, (919) 733-5771 On the studies: NC WARN, Jim Warren (919) 416-5077 Studies show likelihood of increasingly violent weather …
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Synopsis of Recent Scientific Findings on Global Warming – A Statement by NC WARN
Despite a well-funded public relations offensive by polluting industries, by 2001 scientific consensus was solid: Rising global temperatures are primarily caused by burning fossil fuels. Since then, evidence is mounting that 1) global warming is advancing rapidly; 2) rising temperatures are driving extreme weather; 3) the rate of warming is accelerating at a disturbing pace; and 4) we are rapidly approaching a point of no return.
Saving Energy to Slow Global Warming – Jim Warren’s Letter to Greensboro News & Record
As your excellent article (“Your 100-year forecast,” Jan. 30) reflected, despite naysayers like author Michael Crichton, there is broad scientific consensus that global warming is occurring much faster than expected and that the rate is accelerating. Severe impacts are being felt in many places, and climate experts express growing concern about potential “tipping points” and runaway warming.
Weather Gone Haywire – Associated Press
Fact Sheet: The Alarming Truth About Global Warming – NC WARN, 2004
NC’s Disappearing Coast – The Charlotte Observer
Charlotte Observer Sunday, May 9, 2004 North Carolina’s disappearing coast JACK BETTS RALEIGH – RALEIGH — North Carolina’s coast is disappearing. Each year, rising sea level gently floods more land in Eastern North Carolina as faraway glaciers melt. And every so often, relentless northeasters and ferocious hurricanes come along, pounding …
Dioxin: A Global Health Problem – Fact Sheet from NC WARN
WHAT IS DIOXIN AND WHERE IS IT FOUND? Dioxin is one of the most potent man-made toxins currently known. It is the unavoidable byproduct of the manufacture, use and disposal of thousands of products containing chlorine, including PVC plastic, many pesticides and chlorine-bleached paper products. Various forms of dioxin and …
Carolina Solite Toxic Incinerator Victory
Respiratory Disease Associated with Air Pollution – American Journal of Public Health
Thanks to Dr. Zell McGee for providing the overview of this study. The American Journal of Public Health published, “Respiratory Disease Associated with Community Air Pollution and a Steel Mill,” in 1989 by Pope, C.A., III. In a Utah county when a coal-fired industry that was inactive started up again, …