By: Team Sherrod

The science is clear: Climate change is real, man-made, and happening now.

And yet this administration continues to do all it can to roll back the progress we’ve made in fighting climate change and its disastrous effects.

It’s just another reason we can’t afford to lose Sherrod in the Senate, where he fights for policies that keep our country safe for our children and grandchildren. If you agree climate change is something we should fight—not ignore—show your support:

The Washington Post: Trump administration sees a 7-degree rise in global temperatures by 2100

Juliet Eilperin, Brady Dennis and Chris Mooney – September 28, 2018

Key points:

• Last month, deep in a 500-page environmental impact statement, the Trump administration made a startling assumption: On its current course, the planet will warm a disastrous 7 degrees by the end of this century.
• But the administration did not offer this dire forecast as part of an argument to combat climate change. Just the opposite: The analysis assumes the planet’s fate is already sealed.
• The world would have to make deep cuts in carbon emissions to avoid this drastic warming, the analysis states.
• Trump has vowed to exit the Paris accord and called climate change a hoax.
• In the past two months, the White House has pushed to dismantle nearly half a dozen major rules aimed at reducing greenhouse gases, deregulatory moves intended to save companies hundreds of millions of dollars.
• If enacted, the administration’s proposals would give new life to aging coal plants; allow oil and gas operations to release more methane into the atmosphere; and prevent new curbs on greenhouse gases used in refrigerators and air-conditioning units.
• Their proposed vehicle rule alone would put 8 billion additional tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere this century, more than a year’s worth of total U.S. emissions, according to the government’s own analysis.
• This debate comes after a troubling summer of devastating wildfires, record-breaking heat and a catastrophic hurricane—each of which, federal scientists say, signals a warming world.

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