Man-Made Warming Altering Nature's Clock: Scientific American

Starving polar bears are eating one another in the Arctic. Flowers are blooming too soon and dying. The ice caps are melting so swiftly that rising water levels will threaten coastal towns as far away as Florida within several decades. These are just a few examples of the dire consequences of climate change supported by a new analysis in Nature that paints a dark portrait of what a warming world will look like in the years to come. Full Story »

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Roland F. Hirsch
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by Roland F. Hirsch - Oct. 1, 2008

This opinion piece has little journalistic merit. The author is promoting a point of view and did not include (or perhaps is unaware of) numerous studies published in Nature and Science and other journals that contradict the claims made in his short piece. Worldwide temperature have not gone up during the past ten years and many experts expect them to show a downward trend for the next ten. The scenarios in the first paragraph are presented as fact when they are part of a scenario that may or may not happen. The polar ice masses grew during the past year. Etc.

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