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Filed under: Global Warming — globalwarming awareness2007 @ 10:36 pm

Fallon of Anchorage, Alaska, climbs the North Ridge of K2 in the Xinjiang Province of China during the summer of 2000. Mountaineers are bringing back firsthand accounts of vanishing glaciers, melting ice routes, crumbling rock formations and flood-prone lakes where glaciers once rose. The observations are transforming a growing number of alpine and ice climbers, some of whom have scientific training, into eyewitnesses of global warming. (AP Photo/John Heilprin)

AP - Mountaineers are bringing back firsthand accounts of vanishing glaciers, melting ice routes, crumbling rock formations and flood-prone lakes where glaciers once rose.

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Filed under: Global Warming — globalwarming awareness2007 @ 8:25 pm

Climate change is set to inflict damage in every continent, hitting poor countries hardest and threatening nearly a third of the world’s species with extinction, UN experts warned Friday.

AP - Two distinctly different groups, data-driven scientists and nuanced offend-no-one diplomats, collided and then converged this past week. At stake: a report on the future of the planet and the changes it faces with global warming.

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Filed under: Global Warming — globalwarming awareness2007 @ 6:55 am

Dr. William Gray, a top hurricane researcher, answers questions during an interview in New Orleans, Friday, April 6, 2007. Gray takes issue with the suggestion that global warming is changing the world’s climate and increasing the number of stronger hurricanes.

AP - A top hurricane forecaster called Al Gore “a gross alarmist” Friday for making an Oscar-winning documentary about global warming.

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