Global Warming in National Geographic

From the Editor of National Geograghic:

After a decade as Editor in Chief, I have a pretty good idea which
articles will provoke a lot of angry letters. Whenever we publish
stories that challenge widely held beliefs, some readers get mad, and
they write us to let us know.

Well, we're about to do it again. We're devoting 74 pages of this
issue to a three-part series of stories on global climate change, and
I'd be willing to bet that we'll get letters from readers who don't
believe global climate change is real, and humans contribute to the
problem. Some readers will even terminate their memberships.

Why would I publish articles that make people angry enough to stop
subscribing? That's easy. Three stories cover sibjects that are too
important to ignore. From Antactica to Alaska to Bangladesh, a global
warming trend is altering habitats, with devastaing effects.

So I'm asking you- even those of you who don't believe the Earth is
getting warmer and that human behavior is a contibuting factor- turn
to page 2 (http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0409/index.html)
This isn't science fiction or a Hollywood movie. We're not going to
show you waves swamping the Statue of Liberty. But we are going to
take you all over the world to show you the hard truth as scientists
see it. I'd have a harder time looking at myself in the mirror if I
didn't bring you the biggest story in geograpghy today.

-Bill Allen

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Study Links Human Activity to Global Warming

(Reuters) - Warmer temperatures in North America since 1950 were
likely caused in part by human activities, the Bush administration
said in a report that seems to contradict the White House position
there was no clear scientific proof on the causes of global warming.
In a report sent to Congress this week, the administration noted a
recent government-sponsored study supported the view of many
scientists that human action from driving automobiles to running power
plants helped cause global warming. More...

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