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Global Warming & The SIxth Mass Extinction
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"The big melt has begun." - Jennifer Morgan, director of the World Wildlife Fund’s global climate change campaign (Taken from http://www.unep.org/cpi/briefs/Brief05Nov04.doc) |
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Global Warming & The SIxth Mass Extinction
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"It is a real problem. You can say that it isn't. You can say it over and over again. It is a real problem, and it is a problem that is getting worse because we failed to attend to it." - Senator Hillary Clinton (Taken from http://www.edf.org/documents/3333_CSAdebate_102903.pdf) |
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"The possibility of large-scale (continental or global), irreversible changes in Earth systems resulting in widespread and sustained impacts cannot be ruled out. These possibilities are scenario-dependent, and the range of possibilities is yet to be fully evaluated." - Examples include a significant slowing of ocean circulation that transports warm water to the North Atlantic; large reductions in the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets; much faster warming than expected due to positive feedback effects; and releases of additional greenhouse gases from permafrost regions and coastal sediments. While these types of changes are currently thought to be low-probability/high-consequence events with widespread and lasting effects, their probability of occurring increases with the magnitude, rate, and duration of global warming." - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
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Global Warming & The SIxth Mass Extinction
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"Climate Change Is Real..." "...carbon dioxide levels have increased from 280 ppm to over 375 ppm today, higher than any previous levels that can be reliably measured (i.e. in the last 420,000 years). Increasing greenhouse gases are causing temperatures to rise..." - The World's National Academy of Sciences |
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Global Warming & The SIxth Mass Extinction
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"Our civilization is going through a most profound crisis that threatens to undermine the very foundations of the existence of humankind." - Mikhail Gorbachev - Former President of the Soviet Union (Taken from http://gci.ch/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10&Itemid=1) |
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Global Warming & The SIxth Mass Extinction
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"I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.” - Ted Turner (Taken from http://gci.ch/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11&Itemid=1#p18) |
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"And by unsustainable, I do not mean a phenomenon causing problems of adjustment. I mean a challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence." - British Prime Minister Tony Blair |
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"...we predict, on the basis of mid-range climate-warming scenarios for 2050, that 15–37% of species in our sample of regions and taxa will be 'committed to extinction'" - Article in Nature Journal of Science |
