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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: In CNN debates, Democrats talk action on climate change, while Republicans remain in denial; 6 million Floridians (Hello, Marco Rubio!) could be impacted by rising sea levels; PLUS: February 2016's shocking temperature record... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Japanese Taxpayers Picking Up $100B Tab for Fukushima Nuclear Disaster; Finding Climate Fingerprints In Wild Weather Is Valid; Potentially Polluting Phosphorus In 18% Of Maryland Farm Fields; Facing Backlash, Clinton Says Coal Still Has A Future; Zimbabwe Says Up To 4 Million Need Food Aid After Drought; Flint Water E-Mails Written To Stay Secret... PLUS: Record 2016 Temperature Surge Adds Urgency To Climate Deal... and much, MUCH more! ...

STORIES DISCUSSED ON TODAY'S 'GREEN NEWS REPORT'...

• Democratic Presidential Candidates Focus on Climate Action in Florida Debate:
• VIDEO: Univision Democratic Debate from Miami (US Presidential Election News)
• Transcript: The Post-Univision Democratic debate, annotated (Washington Post)
• Sanders, Clinton, Rubio, and Kasich answer climate debate questions (Guardian UK)
• 21 Florida Mayors Urge Networks To Address Climate Change In Miami Debates (Media Matters)
• Republican Presidential Candidates Focus on Science Denial in Florida Debate:
• VIDEO: CNN Republican Debate from Miami (US Presidential News)
• Transcript: The CNN Miami Republican debate, annotated (Washington Post)
• Sanders, Clinton, Rubio, and Kasich answer climate debate questions (Guardian UK):
  
  CNN moderators ask climate questions in the Democratic and Republican presidential debates in Florida/
• 21 Florida Mayors Urge Networks To Address Climate Change In Miami Debates (Media Matters)
• Kasich Bashes Clean Energy And Climate Action At Ohio Town Hall (Climate Progress):
  
  "I think when [Kerry] went to Paris, he should have gone there to get our allies together to fight ISIS instead," Kasich said to applause. He added that clean energy would be too expensive to implement in the Mahoning Valley, where the manufacturing industry has suffered in recent years.
• Florida: The State Most At Risk From Rising Sea Levels:
• Sea level rise projected to displace 13 million in U.S. by 2100 (Retuers) [emphasis added]:
  
  The number of people who could be displaced in U.S. coastal regions due to rising sea levels this century as a result of climate change is much higher than previously thought, with more than 13 million Americans at risk with a 6-foot (1.8 meters) rise including 6 million in Florida, scientists said on Monday.
• Rising sea levels could put 50 percent of Florida population at risk, new study finds (Tampa Bay Times):
  
  [M]ost projections vastly underestimate the number of people at risk because they do not account for population growth.
• Investors in Miami Are Buying Up Land at Higher Elevations (CityLab, The Atlantic):
  
  As developers prepare for sea-level rise, low-income residents face displacement.
• February 2016 Smashes Global Temperature Records:
• February obliterated global heat records, NASA confirms (Mashable) [emphasis added]:
  
  February was Earth's most unusually warm month on record, blowing away the record that had been set just one month prior.
• February may have been the warmest such month on record, but we don't know for sure - despite reports to the contrary (Discover Magzine)
• February Smashes Earth's All-Time Global Heat Record by a Jaw-Dropping Margin (Weather Underground) [emphasis added]:
  
  February is not atop the pack in terms of absolute warmest global temperature: that record was set in July 2015. The real significance of the February record is in its departure from the seasonal norms that people, plants, animals, and the Earth system are accustomed to dealing with at a given time of year.
• Hottest February by far at a whopping 1.35 C above the 1951-1980 mean (Hot Whopper):
  
  That smashes previous records, and is the hottest February on record by 0.47 °C.
• 'True shocker': February spike in global temperatures stuns scientists (Sydney Morning Herald):
  
  Unusual warmth in waters off northern Australia also prompted an alert by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Authority about the risk of widespread coral bleaching.
• Climate Deniers' Favorite Temperature Dataset Just Confirmed Global Warming (Climate Progress)

'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (Stuff we didn't have time for in today's audio report)...

• Panel: Finding Climate Fingerprints In Wild Weather Is Valid (AP):
  
  Climate science has progressed so much that experts can accurately detect global warming’s fingerprints on certain extreme weather events, such as a heat wave, according to a high-level scientific advisory panel.
• Japanese Taxpayers Picking Up $100B Tab for Fukushima Nuclear Disaster (VICE):
  
  Five years ago today a magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the coast of northeastern Japan unleashed a powerful, 30-foot-high tsunami that swept across the landscape, killing 15,000 people, displacing nearly 400,000 others, and triggering one of the worst nuclear disasters in history — a triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
• Potentially Polluting Phosphorus In 18% Of Maryland Farm Fields: State (Bay Journal):
  
  Nearly one in five acres of Maryland farmland has enough phosphorus in its soil to potentially threaten local waterways and the Chesapeake Bay, according to new state data released Monday.
• Facing Backlash, Clinton Says Coal Still Has A Future (AP):
  
  Facing a backlash from Appalachian Democrats, Hillary Clinton's campaign on Monday tried to reaffirm her commitment to coal communities one day after declaring on national television she was going to "to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business."
• Record 2016 Temperature Surge Adds Urgency To Climate Deal: Scientists (Reuters):
  
  A record surge in temperatures in 2016, linked to global warming and an El Nino weather event in the Pacific, is adding urgency to a deal by 195 governments in December to curb greenhouse gas emissions to slow climate change, scientists said on Monday.
• Zimbabwe Says Up To 4 Million Need Food Aid After Drought (Retuers):
  
  The number of Zimbabweans requiring food aid has risen to 4 million, up from 3 million initially, a state-owned newspaper said on Tuesday, as the southern African nation grapples with its worst drought in more than two decades.
• Flint Water E-Mails Written To Stay Secret (Detroit Free Press):
  
  As the Flint water crisis was being discovered, Michigan environmental officials tried to manipulate exemptions in the state's freedom of information law to keep secret emails that should have been subject to disclosure.
• Record-Shattering February Warmth Bakes Alaska, Arctic 18°F Above Normal (Climate Progress):
  
  It was so hot that NASA now reports that last month beat the all-time global record for hottest February by a stunning 0.85°F, when such records are usually measured in hundredths of a degree...Compared to previous big El Niños, we are experiencing blowout temperatures.
• Canada: Fuel Tanker Plunges Through Ice Road On Arctic Circle After Weight Limit Quadrupled (Climate Progress):
  
  After the hottest winter on record, one Canadian territory raised the weight limit on an ice road crossing at the Arctic Circle from 10 metric tons to 40 metric tons. What could possibly go wrong?
• Want to fight climate change? Here are the 7 critical life changes you should make (Grist) [emphasis added]:
  
  So, given the imperfections of this world, what is a lone wolf such as yourself to do? Here are some conclusions gleaned from this study: 1. Buy the most fuel-efficient car you can afford, then drive it as little as possible....

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• Video Proof That Global Warming is a 'Hoax'!: NASA Temperature Data 1888-2011 (The BRAD BLOG):



• NASA climate change video: This is the U.S. in 2100 (NASA).

                 

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