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Bangladesh, which has 140 million people packed into an area a little smaller than Illinois, is one of the most vulnerable places as climate changes. As the sea level slowly rises, this nation, which is little more than a series of low-lying delta islands amid some of Asia's mightiest rivers, is seeing saltwater creep into its coastal soils and drinking water. Scientists say that in many ways it represents climate change's "perfect storm" of challenges because the country is extremely poor, extremely populated and extremely susceptible.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050207EA.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/02/915/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mark+Morford

This week the world's leading climate change experts will outline highly controversial plans to save the world from global warming. Their proposals - which include a major expansion in nuclear power, the use of GM crops to boost biofuel production, and reliance on unproven technologies, including underground storage of carbon dioxide - will put the UN's climate group on a collision course with a host of environmental groups.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050107EB.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/01/876/

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Arctic ice cap melting 30 years ahead of forecast
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070501/sc_nm/globalwarming_ice_dc


Informant: Harlan Girard

http://tamino.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/glaciers-al-gore-got-it-right/


Informant: NHNE



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Inconvenient+Truth
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Al+Gore

Gone
Mother Jones
by Julia Whitty

04/25/07

Scientists recognize that species continually disappear at a background extinction rate estimated at about one species per million species per year, with new species replacing the lost in a sustainable fashion. Occasional mass extinctions convulse this orderly norm, followed by excruciatingly slow recoveries as new species emerge from the remaining gene pool until the world is once again repopulated by a different catalog of flora and fauna. From what we understand so far, five great extinction events have reshaped Earth in cataclysmic ways in the past 439 million years …. Today we’re living through the sixth great extinction, sometimes known as the Holocene extinction event. We carried its seeds with us 50,000 years ago as we migrated beyond Africa with Stone Age blades, darts, and harpoons, entering pristine Ice Age ecosystems and changing them forever by wiping out at least some of the unique megafauna of the times, including, perhaps, the saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths. When the ice retreated, we terminated the long and biologically rich epoch sometimes called the Edenic period with assaults from our newest weapons: hoes, scythes, cattle, goats, pigs. But as harmful as our forebears may have been, nothing compares to what’s under way today...

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/05/gone.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Animal Extinction: The Greatest Threat To Mankind
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2494659.ece


Informant: NHNE



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Julia+Whitty

http://www.physorg.com/printnews.php?newsid=97166140


Informant: NHNE