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Truthout contributor Bill Henderson writes: "Humanity today, collectively, must face the uncomfortable fact that industrial civilization itself has become the principal driver of global climate. If we stay our present course, using fossil fuels to feed a growing appetite for energy-intensive lifestyles, we will soon leave the climate of the Holocene, the world of human history. The eventual response to doubling preindustrial atmospheric CO2 likely would be a nearly ice-free planet."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040908EA.shtml



Warming Trends Rise in Large Ocean Areas

Grant McCool of Reuters reports: "Warming trends in a third of the world's large ocean regions are two to four times greater than previously reported averages, increasing the risk to marine life and fisheries, a UN-backed environmental study said."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040908EB.shtml



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