Office will work with weather, ocean services to report on warming AP in MSNBC | Feb. 8, 2010 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's administration is forming a new agency to study and report on the changing climate. Climate change has drawn widespread concern in recent years as temperatures around the world rise, threatening to harm crops, spread disease, increase sea levels, change storm and drought patterns and cause polar melting. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Jane Lubchenco, he... [Read Post]
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