Understanding Climate Change - Part 1

First installment of Elizabeth Kolbert's series on global climate change.

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April 27, 2005, 2:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"In the same way that global warming has gradually ceased to be merely a theory, so, too, its impacts are no longer just hypothetical. Nearly every major glacier in the world is shrinking...The oceans are becoming not just warmer but more acidic; the difference between day and nighttime temperatures is diminishing; animals are shifting their ranges poleward; and plants are blooming days, and in some cases weeks, earlier than they used to."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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