Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Stellar reporting by CNN: Come see the Great Barrier Reef and the Amazon rain forest before trace amounts of CO2 "mess them up"
# Global warming may ruin many of nature's wonders
# Rising sea levels could make visiting New Orleans difficult in the future
# Glaciers in the Alps may melt by the middle of the century
# Encouraged by warmer winters, pine beetles are ruining forests in Colorado
Great Barrier Reef, We Hardly Knew Ye
The Great Barrier Reef is around 18 million years of age in the north and 2 million Years old in the south, with the existing reef system being between 10,000 and 6000 years old.

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