| The Commitment and Approaching Extreme Danger |
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| The planetary fifty-year catch-up, and the true cost of the fin-backed Chevrolets |
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| The oceans are living in the seventies, and so is our industry |
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| Both define our commitment, but George Dubya considerably extends it |
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| The threshold of extreme danger---400 or 1,200 parts per million; or have we already crossed it? |
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| Farewell the snows of Kilimanjaro |
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| Submerging islands in the sky |
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| If you're at the peak, you've nowhere to go |
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| A dreadful degree of certainty |
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| Of golden bowerbirds, green ringtails, and tree kangaroos |
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| Consider a world without mountaintops |
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| How Can They Keep on Moving? |
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| From Florida to Montreal---trees saved by a continent-long migration |
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| Eucalyptus---the fate of 819 varieties |
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| Demise of the fynbos and succulent karoo---the most beautiful flower gardens of the world |
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| Australia's southwest, forced into a corner |
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| Them that can move'll be the lucky ones |
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| National parks become death traps |
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| Megastudy sees commitment to extinction; but is it one in five, or six in ten? |
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| Why do they die when we see them? |
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| The promise of megamouth---a world of unexplored astonishment |
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| Acid oceans and shell-less pectens at the Poles |
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| Prospect of the last oyster? |
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| Of netdevils and sea devils |
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| The importance of positive feedback loops |
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| Concert of the three scenarios |
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| The Pentagon ponders the Gulf Stream---and sees in its demise the end of civilization |
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| A sufficiency of Sverdrups |
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| The tale of HadCM3LC and the Triffid |
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| Death of the Amazon---a sign from the stomata |
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| A clathrate bomb off a beach near you |
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| Air conditioning, the mother of all positive feedbacks? |
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| Civilization: Out with a Whimper? |
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| Our vaunted civilization and the cities at its center |
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| Cities are like rain forests |
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| What size climatic wave can wipe out a city? |
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| Food production---as specialized as a saber-toothed cat |
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| Poor crops in a CO2-enriched world |
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| The genocidal and Gaia-cidal aspects of adaptation |
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| Survival of the village, and why it will be a mean, lean dark ages |
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| It should have been obvious |
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