The picture they paint much higher sea levels with mind-boggling implications for entire communities, populations, and economies is sobering. It's hard to imagine how governments and individuals will cope with sea level rising at rates of up to a meter per century.
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We're going to need all forms of energy production, including more coal and nuclear. Despite the Bush administration's support for clean coal technologies, the US is not investing anywhere near what will be needed to make this work.Vicki Arroyo
We hear all the time when we go up to the Hill and start talking to congressmen that they don't hear from their constituents about global warming, That when they go to town hall meetings and reach out to their constituents they hear about schools, they hear about crime.
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The report represents a pragmatic and meaningful action plan to reduce emissions.
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It is going to be a piecemeal approach, people are not going to know what their regulatory commitments are from one state to another. And you are then going to have different product standards in different states. It just doesn't make sense. We need a federal policy and that is what we are trying to promote.
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What we propose is changing that to a greenhouse gas focus program and having cars and light trucks together in that program, but announced in advance so that companies can reach (the targets) over time and benefit from a program, like the acid rain program to be able to get the most cost effective reductions.
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