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<div><font face="Geneva">It's increasingly well-understood that 75-80%
of fossil fuels must stay in the ground. A recent analysis by the
Economist Intelligence Unit</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva">confirms that coal, oil, and gas companies
will lose mountains of money if the fuels stay in the ground,<b> but
goes on to report that the losses to the economy as a whole will be
far greater if the fuels are brought to the surface and burned</b>.
This means that one sector of the economy - fossil fuels - is a danger
to the economy as a whole.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva">Under the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency's Clean Power Plan set to be released today, Montana Is
revealed as a leading source of that danger to the economy. Below, see
map of top seven states whose coal-burning power plants endanger the
rest of the economy.</font></div>
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>http://news.nationalgeographic.com/energy/2015/08/080115-seven-most-<span
></span>coal-dependent-states/</font></div>
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<font face="Verdana">"Climate change is not a new topic in biology
Observations of range shifts in parallel with climate change date
back to the mid-1700s."<br>
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"A surprising result is the high proportion of species responding to
recent, relatively mild climate change (global average warming of
0.6C). The proportion of wild species impacted by climate change was
estimated at 41% of all species (655 of 1598)."<br>
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Parmesan, Camille. Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Recent
Climate Change.<i> The Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and
Systematics</i> 2006. 37:637-69. First published online as a
Review in Advance on August 24, 2006</font></font></div>
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