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A Rhode Island Senator speaks out often about dangers of climate change
2016-05-29 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PRI: I'm from the Ocean State, he explains. Ninety-plus percent of the heat captured from greenhouse gases has been taken up by the oceans. So they're warming and you [can] measure that with thermometers. And unless somebody's going to repeal the law of thermal expansion, when oceans warm they get bigger, and when they get bigger they rise against our shores. Off the coast of Newport, Rhode Island, scientists have measured 10 inches of sea level rise since a devastating hurricane in 1938, Whitehouse...
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