Letter to the Editor: Energy Efficiency, and Other Climate Suggestions

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Oct. 22, 2017

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Media Highlight

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The New York Times

"There is another truth. A prominent member of the president’s own administration, Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, is on the public record as recognizing that a warming trend is already underway and has noted — some would say prophetically — that “this warming is projected to fuel more intense and frequent extreme weather events that will be distributed unequally in time and geography.” Continue reading the main story This scientifically based judgment was transmitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee in “Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community” on May 11. JOEL DARMSTADTER CHEVY CHASE, MD. The writer was until recently a senior fellow at Resources for the Future specializing in energy and environmental policy issues."

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