Members of Congress have many invitations to go to nice places, a number of them in the Sunshine State. Someone needs to get them to Miami Beach, fast. Granted, putting that many people on planes would run up a serious carbon budget, but after a couple of hours on the ground (in waterproof boots), it would be a whole lot tougher for any of them to call climate change a “hoax.”
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Entertainment Companies Invest in Beating Climate Change
This is a mega-month for movies. One of the leading studios, Twentieth Century Fox (TCF), is hoping for success with “The Martian,” “The Peanuts Movie,” “Joy,” and others.
If you buy a ticket to a TCF film, at least some of your money will be going toward the company’s investment in beating climate change. Twentieth Century Fox is among 73 corporations that recently took the American Business Acts on Climate Pledge. Disney is another entertainment company that did so, earlier this year.
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Drought and extreme weather are making it even harder for farmers to produce the food needed to feed 7.3 billion people, and scientists believe that climate change contributes to this volatility in our weather. The risks posed to global food security and the challenges facing farmers and consumers in adapting are the focus of a major scientific assessment released in Paris December 4 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.