From Jil:

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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:16:47 -0500
From: Jil_Swearingen@...
To: Kathy Bilton <kathy@...>
Cc: Warren Steiner <Steiner.Warren@...>, lziska@...
Subject: Fw: Conclusions of climate change conference

Kathy,

Would you please send this out to the Worthley Botany class list-serve?
It's very timely for our Feb 19 talk by Lew Ziska. Actually, it would be
great to send out to BSW as well for same reason.

Thank you,

Jil

Grist Magazine
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02/03/2005 12:41 Subject: DAILY GRIST, 03 Feb
2005
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DAILY GRIST
03 Feb 2005
Environmental news from GRIST MAGAZINE
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EXETER STAGE LEFT
Climate eggheads conclude we're toast, not sure when we'll hear the ding

A three-day scientific conference on global warming in Exeter, U.K.,
that wrapped up today vividly illustrates the frustrating current
state of the climate-change debate. There was a palpable sense of
urgency among the scientists in attendance, as various studies
predicted that global warming will yield rising sea levels, outbreaks
of infectious disease, droughts, floods, famine, and up to 150
million "environmental refugees" fleeing arid or submerged land.
Poor countries in South Asia and Africa are expected to be hardest
hit, but aside from some areas of Canada and Russia that may become
newly habitable, virtually every part of the world could see ill
effects. Looming in the background was the poorly understood but
widely acknowledged possibility of abrupt, catastrophic, irreversible
climate change of the sort that was recently overdramatized in the
movie "The Day After Tomorrow." But just when all the gloomy
predictions will come to pass is unknown. Scientists are still
unable to answer the question U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair put at
the center of the conference: "What level of greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere is self-evidently too much?"


straight to the source: New Scientist, Jenny Hogan, 01 Feb 2005
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straight to the source: Terra Daily, Agence France-Presse, 02 Feb 2005
<http://grist.org/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=4205>

straight to the source: Yahoo! News, Agence France-Presse, 02 Feb 2005
<http://grist.org/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=4206>

straight to the source: The Guardian, Paul Brown, 03 Feb 2005
<http://grist.org/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=4207>