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Tom Engelhardt writes: "Over the next 100 years - the heart of your life and that of your children - the Earth could lose its glaciers (major sources of water in places like South Asia); the Greenland ice sheet could radically melt down; and up to half this planet's wealth of species could go extinct. You could also experience the onrush - evidently already underway - of ever more extreme weather patterns (massive hurricanes, typhoons, monsoons, 100-year droughts, and the like), the spread of lethal diseases to new locales, and a host of other unnerving phenomena. ...Even those of you who claim to doubt the reality of global warming sense that this is so...."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051707F.shtml



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