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...Ware. He still lies in a nondescript grave marked only by blue carnations and hidden in a thick roadside forest. Each Mother's Day, his sister Joyce clears the overgrowth. "When we hit the lottery, we're going to move you," she tells him as she works. In the warmest months, swarms of fireflies illuminate the site--innocent reminders of the larger conflagrations that swept through Birmingham in the summer...
...study, co-authored by two scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, concluded that the 20th century has been neither the warmest century of the past millennium nor the one with the most extreme weather...
...speed of the conveyor in the far north has diminished by 20% since the 1970s. Coincidence? Perhaps, but the synchronous freshening of the North Atlantic, a less vigorous Gulf Stream, and a cold snowy Northeast when the rest of the world is baking (last year was the second warmest year on record), may be conveying an urgent message. Something like this happened 12,700 years ago when a post-ice age warming suddenly reversed and in just a few years plunged much of the North Atlantic region into a 1,300 year deep freeze...
...quarter-century ago, such questions would not have seemed terribly urgent. But now that the earth is incontrovertibly heating up--2002, climate experts report, edged out 1999 as the second warmest year on record, after 1998--concerns about the overall stability of Antarctica's ice are on the rise. And with good reason. Locked away in that ice, after all, is 75% of the earth's freshwater, enough to raise global sea levels 200 ft. And while no one expects all that ice to melt anytime soon, a significant portion--enough to swamp low-lying coastal zones and menace major...
...Omen warmest year on record as a direct result of global warming, which has already raised the earth?s average temperature for the year...