[Vision2020] "Be Worried, Be Very Worried"

[Ted Moffett]

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Time magazine, April 3, 2006, cover story:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1176980,00.html


  GREENPEACE
The photograph taken in 1928, above, shows how the Upsala Glacier, part of
the South American Andes in Argentina, used to look. The ice on the Upsala
Glacier today, shown in 2004 below, is retreating at least 180 ft. per year
>From the Magazine | Cover
Polar Ice Caps Are Melting Faster Than Ever... More And More Land Is Being
Devastated By Drought... Rising Waters Are Drowning Low-Lying Communities...
By Any Measure, Earth Is At ... The Tipping Point The climate is crashing,
and global warming is to blame. Why the crisis hit so soon--and what we can
do about it
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Posted Sunday, Mar. 26, 2006
No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but it
probably looks a lot like Earth. Never mind what you've heard about global
warming as a slow-motion emergency that would take decades to play out.
Suddenly and unexpectedly, the crisis is upon us.

It certainly looked that way last week as the atmospheric bomb that was
Cyclone Larry--a Category 5 storm with wind bursts that reached 180
m.p.h.--exploded through northeastern Australia. It certainly looked that
way last year as curtains of fire and dust turned the skies of Indonesia
orange, thanks to drought-fueled blazes sweeping the...

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Ted Moffett
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