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A recent World Bank report warned that we are on the path to a world “marked by extreme heat-waves, declining global food stocks, loss of ecosystems and biodiversity, and life-threatening sea level rise.” Yet The Los Angeles Times , CNN and Fox News ignored the report entirely, continuing a pattern of deficient climate coverage. In November 2012, a World Bank report concluded that a 4 degree Celsius ( 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) worldwide temperature increase by the year 2100, of which there is approximately a 20 percent likelihood even assuming current commitments to greenhouse gas reduction are honored, would lead to “unprecedented heat waves, severe drought, and major floods in many regions” and the “regional extinction of entire coral reef species” that provide “food, income, tourism, and shoreline protection” for many communities. It also determined that the consequences of climate change would most adversely affect “many of the world’s poorest regions,” which have contributed among the least to climate change and have the least ability to adapt

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Fox News questioned the legitimacy of the September jobs report while simultaneously airing numbers from the report that could be perceived as bad news for President Obama and labeling them “Fox Facts.” Following the release of the report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Fox and other media outlets have attacked the report as being manipulated to help the Obama administration politically. Experts say that this is an unfounded conspiracy theory. Before an interview with Fox host Chris Wallace, America’s Newsroom co-host Martha MacCallum questioned the September jobs report, which showed a drop in the unemployment rate to 7.8 percent

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A PBS NewsHour global warming  report  that allowed a climate change contrarian to  “counterbalance” mainstream scientific opinion  is worth criticizing, according to PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler, who said he received hundreds of emails and calls about the program. Getler said he is penning a column on the issue that is likely to be posted late today or Monday, and hinted it will be critical.

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Residents of Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania are exposed to more toxic air pollution from coal-fired power plants than in any other state, according to an analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). At the same time, the report found a 19 percent decrease in all air toxics emitted from power plants in 2010, the most recent data available, compared to 2009 levels. The welcomed drop, which also includes a 4 percent decrease in mercury emissions, results from two key factors

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During Thursday night’s GOP presidential debate, moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News questioned former Massachusetts Gov.

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Marian Wright Edelman This report is a portrait of where our children are right now and a tool to spur us to set the vision of where we need to go to stop the downward mobility of our children and grandchildren and the diminution of America’s future. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said, “We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.&rdquo read more

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Is GOP adopting a soft birtherism when it repeats that the American president doesn’t understand the country that elected him? Read More…

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The root of the problem is our dedication to the fantasy of absolute safety and security. The sooner we recognize that as our national fantasy and stop arming ourselves to the teeth in pursuit of it, the safer we all will be. Read More…

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Most workers face long, troublesome commutes if they try to use public transportation to access jobs, even though most jobs are technically accessible by public transportation, according to a new study from the Brookings Institution. Nearly three-quarters of American jobs are near public transportation, but thanks to suburbanization of both jobs and households, barely a quarter of Americans can access those jobs in less than 90 minutes via public transportation, the report found: The typical job is accessible to only about 27 percent of its metropolitan workforce by transit in 90 minutes or less .

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More than half of all public broadcasting stations would be put “at risk” if federal funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting were eliminated, according to a new report commissioned in response to attacks from conservatives that put the funding in jeopardy. The report stated: “Ending federal funding for public broadcasting would severely diminish, if not destroy, public broadcasting service in the United States.” The study , released June 20 from Booz & Company Inc. , reviewed alternative funding options for public broadcasting if federal funding is removed.

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