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Support for Federal Action: Sportsmen’s Letter to Congress; Letter to U.S. Senate from Millions of sportsmen & women & conservation professionals; Southeast Coastal Region Letter of Support (June 09); NC General Assembly Members Letter of Support; Letter to Senate Urging Support for robust national renewable energy standard from businesses, developers, entrepreneurs, farmers, forest owners, academics, and economic development agents; 1-19-10 Letter From Union of Concerned Scientists to Protect Science and the Clean Air Act; 1-25-10 Coalition of Legislators for Energy Action now: 1,198 State Legislator Signatories Urging Congressional Action; Over 80 CEOs of U.S. Business Call for Action to Act; Voters in Key States Overwhelmingly Support Action on Energy and Global Warming; Supporters Urge Sen. Hagan to support strong climate bill; More…

Other Resources: NOAA Climate Services; The Climate Scoreboard by Climate Interactive; Vulnerability and Climate Change in the US Southeast (Oxfam America); Clean Energy Jobs & American Power Act by U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works; GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources); State Climate Policy Tracker Database by The New America's Foundation; Map of NC Clean Energy Jobs by Environmental Defense Fund; Sourthern Alliance for Clean Energy Webinars; The Directory of Renewable Energy Professionals by North Carolina Solar Center; WRAL Focal Point: Power Shift Four part series; Climate Fast Facts: North Carolina US Climate Action Network; The National Agricultural Law Center Climate Change Reading Room; More…

Impacts of Climate Change

Measuring the Impacts of Climate Change on NC Coastal Resources
Climate and Church
Climate Change Impacts on Regional Air Quality Report (April 09) by EPA
Global Warming and NORTH CAROLINA by National Wildlife Federation
More Extreme HeatWaves: GlobalWarming’sWake Up Call (2009) National Wildlife Federation
America's Share of the Climate Crisis: A State-By-State Carbon Footprint (May 09) Greenpeace
Birds and Climate Change: Ecological Disruption in Motion by Audubon
Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States by United States Global Change Research Program
Southeast Regional Highlights from Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States by US Global Change Research Program
Climate Change Science Compendium 2009 by United Nations Environment Programme
Close Encounters by World Wildlife Fund: Recently discovered species face extinction due to climate change.
Climate change: Impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation by International Food Policy Research Institute
National Parks In Peril The Threats Of Climate Disruption State Fact Sheet: North Carolina & Tennessee by The Rocky Mountain Climate Organization & Natural Resources Defense Council
1-21-10 2009: Second Warmest Year on Record; End of Warmest Decade by NASA
2-10-09 Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions by NOAA

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