climate change
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Science says hotter weather turbocharges western wildfires
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Science says hotter weather turbocharges West’s wildfires As temperatures rise in the U.S. West, so do the flames. The years with the most acres burned by wildfires have some of the hottest temperatures, an Associated Press analysis of fire and weather data found. As human-caused climate change has warmed the world over the past 35…
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Boulder conference topic: Is climate change making hailstorms worse?
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BOULDER – Hailstorms inflict billions of dollars in damage yearly in North America alone, and the cost will rise as the growing population builds more homes, offices and factories, climate and weather experts said Tuesday. A May 2017 hailstorm in the Denver area caused $2.3 billion in insurance losses. Last week, hail injured 14 people…
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Rafters, anglers worry as Colo.’s famed whitewater becomes low water
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By Jennifer Oldham, Special to The Washington Post KREMMLING – In the state known as the “mother of rivers,” the third-warmest and driest period in more than a century is wreaking havoc on waterways that provide the economic lifeline for rural communities and high-alpine habitat for Colorado’s signature fish, the greenback cutthroat trout. The extremes…
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ENDORSEMENT WATCH | EMILY’s List gets behind Democratic legislative candidates
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EMILY’s List, a national group that backs pro-abortion-rights Democratic women candidates, has endorsed 14 Colorado legislative candidates, including a half dozen running for seats that could determine which party has the majority in the state Senate. The group’s president, Stephanie Schriock, said the group’s picks “have the backbones and experience to fight for Colorado’s women…
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BIDLACK | If only more of our leaders would take up the challenge of climate change
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A recent Colorado Politics article told of Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s climate action plan. The mayor reported, as part of his State of the City address, that his plan would move Colorado’s largest city to 100 percent renewable electricity by 2030. Now, I should admit right up front that I’m fairly committed to combatting climate…
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FEEDBACK | Three hot buttons: education, abortion and global warming
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Cary Kennedy is the real leader on education Having seen Jared Polis’s misleading campaign ad attacking Cary Kennedy for the umpteenth time, I am sharing some direct insight about his claim that he “led” the effort to increase funding for every school in Colorado – and from where the actual leadership came. I was the…
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Boulder climate-change lawsuit more political than legal, say CACI panelists
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The climate-change lawsuit launched in state court against ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy by the city of Boulder, along with San Miguel and Boulder counties, is the wrong complaint in the wrong forum, panelists said Thursday at a Colorado Association of Commerce & Industry (CACI) event. “Litigation tends to produce delayed results, and if the objective…
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Bill Ritter throws support behind Weiser in Democrats’ attorney general primary
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Democratic state attorney general candidate Phil Weiser has won an endorsement from former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, his campaign announced Tuesday. Weiser will help lead the state’s fight against climate change, said Ritter, director of Colorado State University’s Center for the New Energy Economy and the man who coined the phrase “new energy economy” while governor. “Phil…
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This Week at the Capitol: April 29 – May 4
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Note: beginning Tuesday, April 30, the Senate will route all bills, regardless of topic, through one of three committees: Finance, Appropriations and/or State, Veterans and Military Affairs. This decision is based on the General Assembly reaching the last ten days of the 2018 legislative session. Senate Majority Leader Chris Holbert of Parker said that as of…
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Bennet, Olympic athletes take on Trump over environment
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet sharply criticized Trump administration environmental policy Wednesday during a briefing on climate change in the nation’s capital. “The president is creating the kind of uncertainty that we don’t need in Colorado,” Bennet said. He was joined by five U.S. winter Olympic athletes – including one from Colorado…
