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To: jlallen who wrote (134498)	4/1/2001 7:36:18 PM
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You know more than the majority of Nobel Laureate Scientists? I don't think so. I think you're worried about the economy, which is a legitimate worry, but instead of being honest and saying it's worth f*ing up the environment to you, you say the environment will be just fine. "Global Warming, El Nino Destroy Coral in Belize" The Orlando Sentinel, May 4, 2000 "The highest sea temperatures ever recorded, which scientists suspect were caused by global warming and the El Nino weather phenomenon, have destroyed coral in Belize for the first time in 3,000 years. American scientists, reporting in the science journal Nature on Wednesday, said temperatures reaching up to 88.7 degrees bleached the Belizean barrier reef causing the coral to collapse and endangering the fragile marine environment. 'There is growing concern that global climate change is degrading coral reef ecosystems, with coral mortality increasing as a result of bleaching and emergent diseases. Our results from Belize appear to justify this concern,' said Richard Aronson of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama." Referenced Research: Ecosystems: Coral bleach-out in Belize Aronson, Richard B. et al., Nature, vol. 405, May 4, 2000, p. 36.

To: jlallen who wrote (134498)	4/1/2001 7:36:54 PM
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"Greenland glaciers could be particularly hard-hit by global warming" Associated Press, April 6, 2000 "Worried about the effects of global warming, scientists watching for signs of melting now say a key threat comes from glaciers in Greenland. Scientists fear that a rise in the Earth's average temperature could make the oceans rise and swamp low-lying coastal cities in the coming century. 'The glaciers of Greenland, more than 9,000 miles to the north, are more likely to melt with dire consequences as Earth warms up,' said Kurt Cuffey, a geographer at the University of California, Berkeley, 'If nothing is done to stabilize our climate and sea levels rise as much as 6 meters (20 feet), you'll flood the southern half of Florida, the southern half of Louisiana. A 2-degree global warming doesn't sound like much, but you have to realize the consequences can be really quite disastrous'." Referenced Research: Substantial contribution to sea-level rise during the last interglacial from the Greenland ice sheet Cuffey, Kurt M. and Marshall, Shawn J., Nature, vol. 404, April 6, 2000, pp. 591 - 594.

To: jlallen who wrote (134498)	4/1/2001 7:37:40 PM
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"New Survey Shows Growing Loss of Arctic Atmosphere's Ozone" The New York Times, April 6, 2000 "Unusual cold and a sharp loss of ozone in the Arctic stratosphere over the winter just past have heightened concern that changes in global climate may delay recovery of the earth's partly depleted ozone layer, scientists said yesterday. Ozone depletion and global climate change are essentially separate phenomena, but they can interact in some ways. For example, emissions of heat-trapping industrial gases like carbon dioxide, which warm the lower atmosphere, have the opposite effect in the stratosphere: they cool it. Over Antarctica, the coldest place on earth, severe ozone depletion takes place every winter. In the Arctic, some winters are too warm for a major depletion. But this year the temperature stayed well below the threshold for long periods, sometimes reaching 120 degrees below zero." Referenced Research: NASA-European Measurements See Significant Arctic Ozone Loss Press Release, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, NASA, April 5, 2000.

To: jlallen who wrote (134498)	4/1/2001 7:38:05 PM
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"The Oceans Absorb Much of Global Warming, Study Confirms" New York Times, March 24, 2000 "An important piece of the global-warming picture has come into clearer focus with a confirmation by scientists that the world's oceans have soaked up much of the warming of the last four decades, delaying its full effect on the atmosphere and thus on climate. This means that to whatever extent the planet is being warmed by emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, which are produced by the burning of coal, oil and natural gas, only part of that heating has materialized so far at and above the earth's surface. Some experts believe that about half the greenhouse warming is still in the oceanic pipeline and will inevitably percolate to the air in the decades just ahead." Referenced Research: Warming of the World Ocean Levitus, Sydney et al., Science, vol. 287, March 24, 2000, pp. 2225 - 2229.

To: jlallen who wrote (134498)	4/1/2001 7:38:19 PM
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"Climate is Warming At Steep Rate, Study Says; Weather: Effects Could Be Severe, Federal Researchers Warn. Scientists Still Debate if Man Or Nature Is To Blame." Los Angeles Times, Feb. 23, 2000 "A new analysis by government scientists indicates the Earth's climate is warming at an unprecedented rate, suggesting that the future impact of global warming may be more severe and sudden than predicted. 'Such a steep warming rate was not expected to occur until well into the 21st century,' said Tom Karl, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climatologist who led the study. Such a trend probably would mean a continuation of the recent three-year string of steamy summers and mild winters seen by much of the nation, and eventually perhaps increased flooding of low-lying areas. 'The next few years are going to be very interesting,' Karl said. 'It could be the beginning of a new increase in temperatures'." Referenced Research: Record Breaking Temperatures Seen as Possible Evidence of Faster Rate of Global Warming, NOAA Reports Press Release, NOAA, February 22, 2000

To: jlallen who wrote (134498)	4/1/2001 7:38:51 PM
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"How Climate Change Alters Rhythms of the Wild; the more scientists look, the more connections they see between shifts in climate and changes in animal behavior and populations" Science, Feb. 4, 2000 "Strengthening the case against warming, [biologist Jerram] Brown says, is the fact that many other species in the Northern Hemisphere, from birds to frogs, are also breeding earlier than they were years ago. 'While no one study can prove that earlier breeding is caused by global warming,' he says, 'it all fits in'. For more than 2 decades, climate modelers have warned that global warming may transform our environment by pushing corn belts north, expanding deserts, and melting ice caps. Now biologists are getting in on the action, compiling an impressive array of data suggesting that climate changes big and small can have profound effects on species. Climate's fingerprints are turning up in observations compiled over years and decades." Referenced Research: How Climate Change Alters Rhythms of the Wild Wuethrich, Bernice. Science, vol. 287, February 4, 2000, pp. 793-795.

To: jlallen who wrote (134498)	4/1/2001 7:39:28 PM
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"Global Warming is 'Real,' Report Finds" The Washington Post, Jan. 13, 2000 "A worldwide rise in temperatures at the Earth's surface is "undoubtedly real" and appears to have accelerated in recent decades, an independent scientific panel concluded in a major new report yesterday. The panel estimated the increase in temperatures over the past century between 0.7 and 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit-a 30 percent increase from earlier projections that reflects record-shattering high temperatures in the late 1990s. Partly deflating a key argument used by skeptics of global warming, the report also dismissed as insignificant a glaring contradiction between two sets of measurements…'The difference between the surface and upper-air trends in no way invalidates the conclusion that the Earth's temperature is rising,' said John M. Wallace, a professor of atmospheric sciences a the University of Washington and chairman of the panel." Referenced Research: Reconciling Observations of Global Temperature Change Study released by National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, January 12, 2000.