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1999 Press Releases

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  • Florida Would Gain 40,000 Jobs from Measures to Cut Air Pollution, Global Warming

    Aggressive policies to curb global warming would spur substantial job and economic growth in Florida, according to a comprehensive new World Wildlife Fund (WWF) study released today at a Miami press conference by Harvey Ruvin, Miami-Dade Clerk of Courts, Adam Markham of the World Wildlife Fund, and other experts.

    November 10, 1999

  • New Analysis Examines Regional Impact of Global Warming

    New research, based on state-of-the-art climate modelling, suggests that global warming will have a severe impact on the United States over the next century as temperatures rise more rapidly than the global average, causing increasing precipitation and flooding and threatening key ecosystems such as Florida's Everglades and Maryland's Chesapeake Bay.

    October 19, 1999

  • WWF Background Paper Examines Link Between Global Warming and Hurricanes

    Growing evidence suggests that global warming may be a factor in the formation of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean - a prospect that makes it likely that super storms like Hurricane Floyd will occur with increasing frequency in the future.

    September 15, 1999

  • Experts report widespread global warming impacts on world oceans

    Rising global temperatures are disrupting life in the oceans from the tropics to the poles and undermining the future survival of a wide variety of species, according to a new report released today by WWF, the international conservation organisation.

    June 08, 1999

  • Global Warming: Early Action Bill Heads the Right Way on the Wrong Road

    World Wildlife Fund today called for major changes to The Credit for Voluntary Early Action Act which was reintroduced in Congress by Senator John Chafee. The bill is essentially the same as the environmentally flawed bill introduced in the second session of the 105th Congress last fall.

    March 04, 1999
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