Sierra Club: Gov. Christie's scale back on solar energy is 'fossil foolish'

The Sierra Club complained that Christie eliminated the Office of Climate Change from the Department of Environmental Protection and recently pulled out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

Researchers push the boundary with high carbon emission scenarios

By 2100, the AllCoal and CurrentMix scenarios would produce a warming of over 12 Kelvin (K) in the Arctic regions, with global sea levels rising by 33 cm and 27 cm respectively due to the thermal expansion of the oceans.
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Lead author Dr Ben Sanderson said, "Our study considered a future in which fossil fuel availability is completely unrestricted and climate change is unmitigated, resulting in significant additional warming above the entire range of scenarios considered in the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC."

"This study showed us that the model behaves on a global scale largely as we would expect."