... continue rising at a faster pace over the next century, possibly increasing by as much as seven degrees Celsius. In comparison, the earth's average global temperature was only twelve degrees cooler than it is now during the last great ice age. A vast majority of species now living do so ... currently declining in North America in trends that concur with what climate models predict. Agriculture and plant species will also be greatly impacted by global climate change. The biggest concern for plants is that they cannot just get up and move. Based on current computer models depicting future ...

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... does until the outside can creep in and warm me. It's usually a human voice; something more real than the essays and articles I read on global warming and remote ice caps that melt slowly every year. The fear settles until someone with a weaker sense of reality can convince me that "something is being ... greenery and killed its animals. Nature did not seem a force that could be controlled and yet it has been. We are conducting an inadvertent global experiment by changing the face of the entire planet. We are destroying the ozone layer, which allows life to exist on the Earth's surface, ...

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