Time: Earth Is at the Tipping Point
Time magazine's special report on global warming is so worrisome that even a Bush administration scientist might take notice.
Time magazine’s special report on global warming is so worrisome that even a Bush administration scientist might take notice.
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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.
It certainly looked that way last week as the atmospheric bomb that was Cyclone Larry–a Category 5 storm with wind bursts that reached 180 m.p.h.–exploded through northeastern Australia. It certainly looked that way last year as curtains of fire and dust turned the skies of Indonesia orange, thanks to drought-fueled blazes sweeping the…
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