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A Countdown To Global Catastrophe?

Posted by Hemos on Monday January 24, 2005 @02:40AM from the you-said-crossing-the-streams-was-bad dept.

An anonymous reader writes "From The Independent: The global warming danger threshold for the world is clearly marked for the first time in an international report to be published tomorrow - and the bad news is, the world has nearly reached it already. For the full story, see this article."

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Re:stupid tsunami by scatalogical · 2005-01-24 03:00 · Score: 5, Informative

Global warming states that the maxima of BOTH hot and cold will increase. Nice to see people are too ignorant to even know what the actual theory is.
Re:We've been in a warming trend by Waffle+Iron · 2005-01-24 03:16 · Score: 5, Informative

Apparently we have another person who was asleep in math class when they taught the concept of rate of change. The last ice age ended 10,000 years ago. They're talking about comparable changes in temperature possibly happening over the next 100 years.