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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Mar 30, 2006 11:37pm |
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| Category | General |
| Media | Weekly News Magazine - TIME Magazine |
| News Date | Monday, March 27, 2006 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame. Why the crisis hit so soon--and what we can do about it
By JEFFREY KLUGER
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.
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The image of Earth as organism--famously dubbed Gaia by environmentalist James Lovelock-- has probably been overworked, but that's not to say the planet can't behave like a living thing, and these days, it's a living thing fighting a fever. From heat waves to storms to floods to fires to massive glacial melts, the global climate seems to be crashing around us. Scientists have been calling this shot for decades. This is precisely what they have been warning would happen if we continued pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, trapping the heat that flows in from the sun and raising global temperatures. |
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