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2008 Presidential Candidates
To help stop global warming and address our energy issues, it is imperative that our country elect a leader with a plan. Read each of the 2008 Presidential candidates future plans to address the issues and how they have voted in the past. Compare the candidates...
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The Cost of Global Warming - By the Numbers
Sceptics and opponents often argue that the cost of combatting global warming will have a negative impact on our economy and be cost prohibitive. But the cost of NOT addressing global 
warming is a greater threat.
153 million
Number of Americans who live along the coasts.
1-3 feet
Projected sea level rise in the next 100 years
$1.9 billion
Cost of upgrades to drinking and wastewater infrastructures in Hawaii alone over the next 20 years due to projected sea level rise.
90%
Amount of increase in homeowner's insurance in coastal areas in South Carolina over the last year.
$35 billion
Amount of insured losses caused by hurricanes in 2004 & 2005 in Florida alone. Hurricanes will become more intense due to global warming.
$6 billion
Estimated economic loss in California's Central Valley during forecasted dry years due to decreased rainfall – another consequence of global warming.
7 million
Number acres of forests burned in the National Forest System each year for the last 4 years. Global warming is predicted to cause more frequent and more severe forest fires in the West.
$1.3 billion
Cost of the last four years of fires in the National Forest System.
100%
Projected growth of the US economy by 2030.
0.74%
Projected cost of smart cap-and-trade climate policy on US economic output in 2030.
0
Number of bills passed by Congress to cap and reduce America's global warming pollution.
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