NOAA Predicts

"2020 Is On Track To Be the Hottest Year On Record"

"One of the highest temperatures ever recorded

 on the planet

  occurred in Death Valley, CA on 8/16/20. . .

130 degrees Farenheit

AND

The highest temperature ever recorded

 ABOVE the ARCTIC CIRCLE 

  occured in Siberia on 6/20/20, . . 

100.4 degrees Farenheit.

In Alaska

"The sea ice completely melted away"

 "There was NO sea ice

 within150 miles from the shoreline.

None."

And "CA's record heat 

exacerbated the region's most

  severe drought in the last 1,200 years . . ." 

fueling the unprecidented wildfire season in the US West.

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​Support for Renewable Energy Grows

Battery Storage Gets a Boost

The utility Southern California Edison to build seven lithium-ion battery storage projects that add up to an eye-popping 770 megawatts,

 enough to power a small city. 

(Details on "News and Links")

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Temple's Renewable Energy Task Force 

is evaluating options for converting our municipal sector's energy usage to

100% Renewable Energy by 2030.

Inspired by Greta Thunberg, student activist -

students around the world are

taking a stand for climate action.

"The Arctic has Entered an Unprecedented State that Threatens

the Entire Planet"

https://www.nationofchange.org/2019/04/09/new-study-shows-the-arctic-has-entered-an-unprecedented-state-that-threatens-the-entire-planet/

 The Oceans' Absorption Rate of CO2

is at a Precipice -

a rate"faster than the worst case in the

geologic record"....

impacting mass extinctions

CO2 in the Atmosphere

has breached the safe limit of

350 parts per million.

It has climbed to 

415 ppm....

"a level not found in 3 million years."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/13/we-dont-know-planet-co2-levels-hit-415-ppm-first-time-3-million-years?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIuuqkvKqQ5A   

The "Military Could Collapse Within 20 

Years Due to Climate Change "

From a 2019 report commissioned by

the Pentagon

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbmkz8/us-military-could-collapse-within-20-years-due-to-climate-change-report-commissioned-by-pentagon-says

11/24/18

"Climate change is here,

it's expensive, and it's deadly". 

With - "Dire Effects on Northeast 

 Fishing and Infrastructure"

NH Senators Shaheen and Hassan respond to the climate assessment and list of NH's specific impacts.

https://www.shaheen.senate.gov/news/press/shaheen-and-hassan-respond-to-findings-for-northeast-region-in-federal-climate-change-report

"Urgent and Unprecedented Changes

are Needed."

"We Only Have 10 More Years to Significantly 

Mitigate Catastrophic Climate Change"

Washington Post, 2017

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/201/

7/01/09/methane-may-not-last-long-in-the-atmosphere-but-it-drives-rising-seas-for-hundreds-of-years/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3dd34950d544 

A US Congressional bill initiated by NH's Senator Shaheen and Congresswoman Kuster

to bring the voice of the public

into the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

proceedings 

http://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/global-warming-impacts/when-rising-seas-hit-home-chronic-inundation-from-sea-level-rise

The Single Most Significant Step

by World Leaders to Tamp Down Escalating

Climate Change 

The Climate Could Hit a State Unseen in

50 Million Years!

THE PRICE OF SOLAR ENERGY

WILL LIKELY BE THE LOWEST-COST OPTION FOR ELECTRICITY ACROSS THE GLOBE WITHIN THE NEXT DECADE!