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BREAKING: The House has voted to ban offshore drilling on Florida's Gulf Coast, 248-180.
Background on this bill (HR 205) and others in the story below.

https://twitter.com/BBuchman_CNS/status/1171837627449970688

BREAKING: The House has voted to ban oil leasing in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, 238-189.
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@CourthouseNews REPORT: Expert Tells House Committee Climate Change Could Wreck U.S. Economy
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@CourthouseNews Solutions to tamp down carbon emissions are many.
Some are more expensive than others.
Some are more effective than others.
But as one expert explained, however the plan may be budgeted, it must be backed up with the key elements required to stave off turmoil in the economy:

“The burning of fossil fuels and emission of greenhouse gases are the cause of warming. Even if we fail to mitigate the effects completely, we will still have to adapt."

Parris Island in South Carolina had to be evacuated during Hurricane Dorian. Tyndall Air Force Base was destroyed by Hurricane Michael last year. Excessive heat at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg often shuts the base down.

In Alaska, a NORAD base is sinking through melting permafrost. A U.S. Marine brigade in the Indian Ocean is about to go under water.

Retired U.S. Marine Corps General Stephen Cheney weighed in:

“The sad part is when you look at the documents coming out of the White House and Pentagon, in their national security strategies, there’s not a mention of the words climate change. It did in the past. Congress must tell them to consider this a critical threat,” he said.

As this testimony unfolded, elsewhere in the House, bills banning offshore drilling went to a final vote. Florida Republican Representative Francis Rooney’s bill, H.R. 205, which places a moratorium on offshore drilling in parts of the Florida Gulf, passed in the House, 248-180.

H.R. 1941, which blocks the Interior Department from leasing to oil developers in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, also passed 238-189.

H.R. 1146, a bill to repeal leasing in a section of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was debated Wednesday but will not see a vote until Thursday.

I'll have coverage of the vote for @CourthouseNews.

More notable comments from Burke's testimony.

Productivity drops when temperatures rise. Cognitive functions slow when a person is overheated.

"Hot temperatures literally make us dumber."

They may also make us more violent.

According to a June study by the National Bureau of Economics, aggravated assault, sexual violence and homicide increase when temperatures rise. The number of suicides increase, as well.