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Edward Markey: “In the year 2000, there were five events in our country…”

Featuring: Edward Markey, Democratic | U.S. Senate Massachusetts

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Fighting Trump's scorched-Earth policies this Earth Week with Climate Action Campaign.

Published | Video Starts at 24:42

That is what we're talking about right here. That's the danger that Sue Ellen was just talking about. And do we have evidence that climate change is real? In the year 2000, there were five events in our country related to climate that caused a billion dollars worth of damage. Two years ago, we had 27 events in the United States that caused more than a billion dollars worth of damage. The planet is running a fever. (24:42–24:54)

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Asserts that in 2000, there were five climate-related events in the U.S. causing over a billion dollars in damage.

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