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...planet that is 71% water, less than 3% of it is fresh. Most of that is either in the form of ice and snow in Greenland and Antarctica or in deep groundwater aquifers. And less than 1% of that water - .01% of all the earth's water - is considered available for human needs; even then, much of it is far from large populations. At the dawn of the 21st century, more than 1 billion people do not have access to safe drinking water. Some 2.4 billion - 40% of the world's population - lack adequate sanitation, and 3.4 million die each...
That could be truly catastrophic. The ongoing disruption of ecosystems and weather patterns would be bad enough. But if temperatures reach the IPCC's worst-case levels and stay there for as long as 1,000 years, says Michael Oppenheimer, chief scientist at Environmental Defense, vast ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica could melt, raising sea level more than 30 ft. Florida would be history, and every city on the U.S. Eastern seaboard would be inundated...
...That could be truly catastrophic. The ongoing disruption of ecosystems and weather patterns would be bad enough. But if temperatures reach the IPCC's worst-case levels and stay there for as long as 1,000 years, says Michael Oppenheimer, chief scientist at Environmental Defense, vast ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica could melt, raising sea level more than 9 m. Florida would be history, and every city on the U.S. Eastern seaboard would be inundated...
...absentee ballots cast overseas. In the 10 days we spend waiting for the ballots to arrive and be counted, Bush and Gore decide to forgo this silly election and join together in a coalition called "The Demopublicans." Their first act as president is to deport Ralph Nader to Greenland. Hey, he asked...
What does science tell us? The earliest studies simply reported that populations that traditionally eat a lot of fish--think Greenland Eskimos, Native Americans of the Northwest and the Japanese--have relatively low rates of heart disease. Then laboratory analyses showed that omega-3 fatty acids lower the risk of clots developing in the blood--a common trigger for a heart attack--while reducing the level of triglycerides, another fatty compound that has been linked to heart disease, and decreasing the number of irregular heartbeats. All pretty good circumstantial evidence, but not enough to support a health claim...