Iowa Global Warming

Last Friday the House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy & Security act on a close vote. This legislation promises to jump start our renewable economy, reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. Now the bill faces a tough battle in the Senate before it can be signed into law by the President.

We are going to keep building the Iowa grassroots pressure for real solutions to climate change. That is why the Iowa Global Warming Campaign will be collecting “declare your independence from fossil fuels” postcards from concert-goers at the 80/35 festival in Des Moines. The postcards will be mailed to our Senators letting them know what the people want. The 80/35 festival will be held July 3rd and 4th at 13th and Locust Avenue. This is a great opportunity to volunteer with the campaign and make a real difference in getting our country off of fossil fuels. At least 15,000 people are expected to attend the concert featuring Public Enemy, Ben Harper, and many others (http://80-35.com/). Send an email to dveysey@iowaglobalwarming.org if you are interested in volunteering!

Drew
dveysey@iowaglobalwarming.org

Global warming will be twice as severe as previous estimates indicate, according to a new study published this month in the Journal of Climate, a publication of the American Meteorological Society.
The research, conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), predicts a 90% probability that worldwide surface temperatures will rise more than 9 degrees (F) by 2100, compared to a previous 2003 MIT study that forecast a rise of just over 4 degrees.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007 forecast a temperature rise of anywhere from 2 to 11 degrees by 2100 based on a variety of different greenhouse-gas-emissions scenarios.

The projections in the MIT study were done using 400 applications of a computer model, which MIT says is the most comprehensive and sophisticated climate model to date. The model looks at the effects of economic activity as well as the effects of atmospheric, oceanic and biological systems.

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