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truthpusher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-05 11:24 PM
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No Stopping Global Warming, Studies Predict (it's going to get worse)
Edited on Thu Mar-17-05 11:42 PM by truthpusher
No Stopping Global Warming, Studies Predict
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Thu Mar 17, 3:50 PM ET
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even if people stopped pumping out carbon dioxide and other pollutants tomorrow, global warming would still get worse, two teams of researchers reported on Thursday.

Sea levels will rise more than they have already risen, worsening the damage caused by extreme high tides and storm surges, and droughts, heat waves and storms will become more severe, the climate experts predicted.

That makes immediate action to slow global warming even more vital, the teams at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado report in the journal Science.

"Even if we stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations, the climate will continue to warm, and there will be proportionately even more sea level rise," said the NCAR's Gerald Meehl, who led one of the two studies.

"The longer we wait, the more climate change we are committed to in the future."



more: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050317/sc_nm/environment_climate_dc_1
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chlamor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-05 11:38 PM
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1. Gestation Period of 40 Years
or something like that. So many SUV's... So many military machines.... so little time
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-05 11:44 PM
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2. Makes bringing on the rapture look much, much easier
:D
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 12:14 AM
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3. Sorry, kids
We, uh, screwed up, bigtime. My generation swore we'd change the world. Well, we changed it alright, changed it for the worse.

Forgive us, for we knew not what we were doing. So, can we still get our social security, please?
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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 09:10 AM
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4. kick
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