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Post by Janus232 » 05-27-2007 07:46 AM

Massive losses projected from bleaching of corals
"Mass coral bleaching events will have similar consequences on the lives of people as droughts and oil spills and require a similar response. This scenario is but one example of how people's lives may be threatened through climate change impacts on our environment..... t has caused stress, and in many cases extensive coral mortality, to nearly every coral reef region in the world. In 1997-98 alone, mass bleaching is estimated to have caused over 90 per cent coral mortality to 16 per cent of the world's coral reefs (Wilkinson 2002)"
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl ... =161153004

Wintertime warming of an Arctic shelf in response to large-scale atmospheric circulation
"Observations on the West Spitsbergen Shelf have shown that the dynamic response of the shelf to wind forcing has a profound effect on the heat content of the water. Hydrographic and atmospheric data have been analysed with respect to the relative importance of surface heat fluxes and advective processes on ocean temperature"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 9948.shtml

Halting biodiversity loss before it is too late
“We must move towards sustainable use, previous initiatives have not delivered due to a lack of funding and political will. Halting the current unparalleled rates of decline in biodiversity will require exceptional efforts in changing our habits”
http://www.neurope.eu/view_news.php?id=74288

Investment banks flock to booming carbon trade
http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersE ... 2720070525

Global Climate Change:_ Past and Present (Environmental Lecture Series)
Dr. Michael Mann - Thursday, May 31, 2007 - 7:00 p.m - 8:30 p.m Salem Public Library's Loucks Auditorium
http://www.open.org/~selc/

Sun plays hide and seek over Delhi
"Something is wrong with the Delhi weather. I don't know what but something is wrong"
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/sun-plays-h ... 415-3.html

Vital Genetic Resources For Resisting Drought, Pests Jeopardised By Climate Change
"Our results would indicate that the survival of many species of crop wild relatives, not just wild potato, peanuts and cowpea, are likely to be seriously threatened even with the most conservative estimates regarding the magnitude of climate change"
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medical ... wsid=71742

Ancient Climate Change Rocked Tibetan Cultures
"The shift had an interesting spatial pattern: It got drier in some areas, and it got wetter in other areas"
http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx ... ts&t=1&c=1
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Shamanic Anarchistic Archaic Revival....

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Post by Janus232 » 05-29-2007 01:03 PM

Sir David, the king of the natural world
"It would be very foolish indeed to think there is no nemesis awaiting us unless we reform our behaviour"
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/displa ... 75.0.0.php

Indian Ocean warmed by climate change
“From ocean measurements and by analysing climate simulations we can see there are changes in features of the ocean that cannot be explained by natural variability.... at the same time, we are seeing changes in ocean circulation in tropical regions as a result of a long-term weakening of the Pacific Ocean trade winds. This affects sea surface temperature in regions relevant to the source and distribution of rainfall across southern Australia”
http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20073005-15938.html

An ITCZ-like convergence zone over the Indian Ocean in boreal late autumn
"We examined the convective activity over the tropical Indian Ocean in boreal autumn using satellite-observation data. In November and December, we detected an intertropical convergence zone-like (ITCZ-like) precipitation zone between Maldives and Somalia that is unobserved in the other periods of the year. It accompanied a high sea-surface temperature (SST) north of the equator, and a cold tongue near the equator, similar to the ITCZs over the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. However, the formation mechanism of the SST anomalies over the Indian Ocean is not the same as that in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. The high-SST region forms in early November corresponding to weak sea-surface wind during the monsoon transition. The low SST along the equator appears, associated with the upwelling of the subsurface water"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 8341.shtml

USGS Has Science that Weathers the Storm
"Improved flood monitoring and assessment will help reduce the risks to coastal communities, property, and human life"
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1675

Canada's Hydrogen Strategy at a Glance
"Hydrogen Production from Non-Fossil Sources"
http://www.h2.ca/PDF/HydrogenSystems.pdf

Damage from climate change may cost Alaska $10 bln
"There is a rough magnitude of between $5 and $10 billion of public infrastructure that's vulnerable to climate change just in Alaska"
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceN ... 8620070529

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Post by Janus232 » 05-30-2007 01:52 AM

Pathways of the Greenland Sea warming
"Progressive warming of the West Spitsbergen Current (WSC) has been observed since 2004. During summer 2006 temperature and salinity of the core of Atlantic Water (AW) reached the highest ever observed by the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAS) values. The structure of the WSC, the heat content and the extent of AW in the Fram Strait (FS) region has also changed. Temperature changes resulted from the upstream warming of the Norwegian-Atlantic Current (NwAC); the structure of the WSC and its heat content were modified by the northward advection of large mesoscale eddies observed within the western branch of the WSC in summer 2005. These changes may have large impacts on the Arctic Ocean (AO) climate and ecosystem"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 9974.shtml

Will Amazon drought worsen in 2007?
"Undisturbed forests are resistant to burning because their dense leaf canopy prevents all but a tiny portion of incoming solar radiation from reaching the forest interior, keeping the litter layer too moist to sustain a fire. Now large areas of forest are selectively logged prior to being settled, leaving holes in the canopy; longer, more intense dry seasons provoke leaf thinning; and both of these changes allow the litter to become dry enough to sustain a fire. Once a forest has burned a first time, the combination of a more damaged forest canopy and a stock of larger fuel from trees killed by prior fires make it even more vulnerable to subsequent fires"
http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0529-amazon.html

Everest ice forest melting due to global warming,
"The demise of the ice towers is the most significant sign of global warming in the Himalayas..... But this is just one example of what is happening right across the Qinghai-Tibet plateau. All the glaciers are depleting, threatening the livelihoods of millions of people"
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/clima ... 11,00.html

Disastrous Effects of Global Warming Tipping Points Near ...
"strong amplifying feedbacks"
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/st ... 473&page=1

Defining a new-type of refugee
"The first massive movement of climate refugees has been that of people away from the Gulf Coast of the United States"
http://www.sundaytimes.lk/070527/Columns/inside.html

Change lifestyle, not the climate
"We cannot as a society of over a billion people ever think of embarking or continuing on a path of growth and development that emulates what the west and the developed world have done, because that is totally unsustainable"
http://www.business-standard.com/common ... =0&chkFlg=

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Post by Janus232 » 05-30-2007 06:53 AM

Inuit crash through ice to death as warming bites
"My people have been hunting on the ice for 5,000 years but now you risk death around every turn"
http://www.reuters.com/article/environm ... 2320070529

Europe's wildlife threatened by climate change
"Many species are already on the move, expanding northwards as temperatures rise. Europe's landscape is already experiencing massive change at our hands as we build on and develop our land resources at a rapid rate"
http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp ... &channel=0

The Climate Group
"The organization was founded in 2004 by a diverse group of companies, governments and supporters who saw the opportunity to create new momentum in the international effort to stop global warming"
http://theclimategroup.org/index.php/about_us/

Conference told that renaissance is possible
“a significant part of the solution to the larger global problems of climate change, economic development and resource management”
http://www.neimagazine.com/story.asp?se ... de=2044614

World Environment Day
Check out the Photo Gallery (Climate change) *****
http://www.unep.org/wed/2007/english/

Surviving Antarctica
"Take a journey to the end of the Earth and discover how life survives some of the most extreme conditions on the planet"
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2007 ... 11786.html

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Post by Janus232 » 05-31-2007 09:46 AM

the future of Greenland’s ice sheet
“Our lack of understanding of how Greenland’s outlet glaciers are changing means that models will consistently under-predict the rate of sea-level rise from Greenland. The GLIMPSE project will help ensure these models make better predictions of the Greenland ice sheet’s future........ I believe the stability of the Greenland ice sheet to be the most pressing question facing glaciology, and certainly one of the most pressing problems facing our civilisation”
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/b ... 85075.html

Research Finds That Earth's Climate is Approaching 'Dangerous' Point
"Antarctica lost much more ice to the sea than it gained from snowfall according to a NASA survey done between 1992 and 2002. It also had a corresponding rise in sea level"
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/new ... point.html

Cyclones May Help Fuel Ocean Heat Transfer
"This mixing is also a downward heat pump and might tend to enhance the overturning circulation, transporting slightly more heat to the poles....... his in turn might act to enhance polar amplification of climate change, increasing the global mean warming''
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... fer=canada

NASA Chief Questions Urgency of Global Warming
NASA studies climate change, the agency has no authorization to "take actions to affect climate change in either one way or another"
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=10571499

Statement in Response to Inquiries Related to NPR Press Release
"NASA is the world's preeminent organization in the study of Earth and the conditions that contribute to climate change and global warming. The agency is responsible for collecting data that is used by the science community and policy makers as part of an ongoing discussion regarding our planet's evolving systems. It is NASA's responsibility to collect, analyze and release information. It is not NASA's mission to make policy regarding possible climate change mitigation strategies. As I stated in the NPR interview, we are proud of our role and I believe we do it well"
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/ma ... t_NPR.html

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Post by Janus232 » 06-03-2007 01:56 AM

Rising sea levels could swallow California's delta islands
"The delta is a highly vulnerable, high-risk area subject to major hazards.......... What is that land going to look like with a two-foot rise in sea level?"
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_6046990

The Meltdown
"The most immediate security impact of accelerated global warming and Arctic thawing is that - in a pure geostrategic sense - we’re about to witness some profound and positive changes in the international security environment”
http://www.russiaprofile.org/page.php?p ... 1180718064

Swiss environment not getting better
"In Switzerland, the average temperature rose by 1.5 degrees Celsius between 1970 and 2005"
http://www.nzz.ch/2007/06/01/eng/article7883565.html

Power variations of Schumann resonances related to El Niño and La Niña phenomena
"Due to the different spatial field distributions of SR electrical and magnetic components in the Earth-ionosphere cavity, the different power variation patterns are clearly observed in the electrical and magnetic components with the motion of the thunderstorm center in our FDTD results. A new method is proposed to detect the shifts of the thunderstorm regions related to the El Niño and La Niña phenomena using the combination of both electrical and magnetic components of Schumann resonances at a single station"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 0092.shtml

Masdar launches the first World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi
".... a global cooperative platform in the search for solutions to energy security, climate change and sustainable human development"
http://www.ameinfo.com/122209.html

China to enact action plan on climate change
“common but differentiated responsibilities”
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Mag ... 094773.cms

The Poseidon Myth
"There are moves that there should be differentiated targets and differentiated approaches for developed and developing countries, but how that gets finalised is not clear at the moment"
http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fo ... e=Climate+(F)&sid=1

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Post by Janus232 » 06-04-2007 09:08 AM

Announcing for 2008 - Nature Geoscience
http://www.nature.com/ngeo/index.html

UN warning over global ice loss
"The missing link is universal political action. Today's report should empower the public to take their leaders to task [and] should empower them to ask how much hotter it has to get before we act"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6713139.stm

melting glaciers could harm millions in Asia
"Global warming is a universal issue that calls for concerted efforts from all countries"
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007- ... 196986.htm

Melting Snow, Ice May Cause Water Shortages, Floods
"The threat to the climate is so important that if it isn't solved, it could lead to huge conflicts as people fight over access to water and land"
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... in_america

The sustainability of the chaos theory
"Models of sustainable development on the ten-year and century-long timescales must take into account the diversity and the 'turbulence', the fluctuations on much shorter and more local scales"
http://www.scenta.co.uk/Nature/1699319/ ... theory.htm

What's so bad about deforestation?
"an area the size of Greece or Nicaragua -- is cleared every year"
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceN ... LEFEATURE_

Too late for 'luxury' of Kyoto delay
"Given the evidence, given the scale of the disaster should that evidence be correct, it would be grossly, unforgivably irresponsible not to act"
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2094617,00.html

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Post by Janus232 » 06-05-2007 07:31 AM

Up to 10% of land bird species endangered by 2050
"Species in temperate regions will suffer mostly from climate change. But in the tropics, where birds are especially diverse and have small ranges, land conversion such as deforestation will have an even bigger impact"
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... -2050.html

Shrinking lakes and denuded forests
"It is clear that the water level of Lake Tanganyika is decreasing every year"
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdes ... 3c8c5f.htm

Bali tourism struggling as reef declines
"Sedimentation, bombing, cyanide, coastal development unfriendly to the environment must be stopped, if not the corals will not have a chance to survive"
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21 ... 02,00.html

Geoengineering - A quick fix with big risks
”I hope we’ll never need geoengineering schemes, but if a climate catastrophe occurs, I sure hope we will have thought through our options carefully”
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/b ... 85367.html

Mercury-bound space probe gets upclose with Venus
"One of the science topics of Venus Express is to learn, more in general, how climate change works on planets"
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0706/04venusflyby/

Prediction of sea surface temperatures in the western Mediterranean Sea by neural networks using satellite observations
"We use artificial neural networks (ANNs) to predict sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the western Mediterranean Sea. The ANNs are trained with meteorological variables as input and concurrent satellite-derived SSTs as target. The trained ANNs predict well both the seasonal and the interannual variability of SST in that region. We also reproduce the impact of the heat wave that occurred during the summer of 2003 on the SSTs of the western Mediterranean Sea"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 9888.shtml

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Post by Janus232 » 06-06-2007 09:37 AM

Nation may lose 12% of land to rising sea levels
"If sea levels rose by one metre, the consequences for Viet Nam would be devastating..... 17 million people would lose their homes ... 40,000 Sq.km of plains and 17 Sq.km of coastal areas in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces would be subject to unprecedented levels of flooding"
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/show ... 2MIS060607

Melting glaciers hit Tajik lives
"TB, dysentry and diarrhoea are all linked to water shortages brought by climate change"
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/s ... ves/548167

Global warming and the melting of Greenland
"Did the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report underestimate the forecast for the rise in ocean levels?"
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L06897244.htm

US rejects German G8 climate goal
"Washington says it will not agree to climate change targets ahead of a G8 summit"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6725801.stm

Bush says his climate plan will back U.N. bids
"This will fold into the U.N. framework"
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?alias= ... rc=reuters

Sarkozy's big debut
"world environment organisation"
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/sim ... debut.html

World 'will act on climate gases' (4 November, 2004)
"World Environment Organisation"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3971019.stm

Global Outlook for Ice and Snow (Large file: 98 MB) *****
"Ice, snow and climate change are closely linked. The Global Outlook for Ice and Snow investigates those linkages. It also presents information on the trends in ice and snow, the outlook for this century and beyond and the consequences to ecosystems and human well-being of these changes. It covers all parts of the cryosphere (the world of ice): snow, land ice, sea ice, river and lake ice, and frozen ground. The Global Outlook for Ice and Snow was written by more than 70 scientists from around the world"
http://www.unep.org/geo/geo_ice/PDF/ful ... LowRes.pdf

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Icy Island Warms to Climate Change
Greenlanders Exploit 'Gifts From Nature' While Facing New Hardships
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... rrer=email

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Status Report on the NPOESS Weather Satellite Program
"the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) Limb has been restored to fly on the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite, which is scheduled to launch in 2009. NASA and NOAA will split the cost to re-manifest the OMPS Limb instrument"
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=24451

Salty oceans provide early warning for climate change
“A salt surge is enough to kick start circulation”
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ ... 060807.php

Climate change: 'No one is immune, no one is safe'
"Dr Rajendra K Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change"
http://in.rediff.com/news/2007/jun/08inter.htm

Switching on to nanogeneration
"As a society, we are beginning to accept that climate change is a challenge of monumental proportions"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6733651.stm

Signatures of ultra fast Kelvin waves in the equatorial middle atmosphere and ionosphere
"This is the first report of clear evidence of propagation of a UFK wave from the stratosphere to the ionosphere"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 9612.shtml

Hong Kong winters may vanish in 50 years: weather expert
"We would really start losing the very distinct seasonal march throughout the year ... We would really look more tropical than we (are) now,"
http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNe ... 4520070608

Record Low Water Levels in May for North Carolina Rivers
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1690

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Post by Janus232 » 06-10-2007 08:51 AM

Southeast Asia battles Dengue surge, climate fears
"The threat of Dengue is increasing because of global warming, mosquitoes are becoming more active year by year and their geographical reach is expanding both north and south of the Equator"
http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.a ... 28&sid=ENV

Ice ages dried up African monsoons
"They also discovered big swings in monsoon activity over timescales as small as 100 years, linked to rapid climate change caused by changes in ice sheet size (Science, vol 316, p 1303). "Something that happens right up in the poles can have a dramatic effect on the climate in the tropics"
http://environment.newscientist.com/art ... soons.html

The Aurora Borealis ice breaker science plan
The change from a temperate Mesozoic and early Cenozoic global environment to the modern extreme is one of the most exiciting and least understood chapters of Earth history. In spite of our efforts so far, a key for understanding the Mesozoic and Cenozoic Northern Hemisphere conditions in general, and polar palaeoceanography in particular, is still hidden in the sedimentary sequences of the Arctic Ocean itself" (p.68)
http://www.esf.org/fileadmin/be_user/pu ... realis.pdf

the Gulf's dead zone is growing
"You reach a point where you've shifted the ecosystem to a completely different domain, and the recovery from that may be impossible"
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/200 ... t_the.html

Observations of a Hurricane Katrina-induced phytoplankton bloom in the Gulf of Mexico
"The phytoplankton bloom is attributed to the enhanced nutrient supply brought up by the wind-driven upwelling and vertical mixing, and is identified as the only source of observed changes in ocean optical and bio-optical properties"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 9724.shtml

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Global warming is speeding up ocean waves
"We knew we'd see an effect, but we didn't think it would be significant for at least another two centuries"
http://environment.newscientist.com/art ... waves.html

EU and Japan pledge to deepen climate change research cooperation
"It was agreed that joint involvement in existing, proposed and future research projects should be encouraged in areas of common interest.... The almost in-parallel launches of the Science and Technology Basic Plan of Japan and the Seventh Framework Programme of the EU provide a unique opportunity for a deepening of cooperation by having coordinated activities of mutual interest research topics of climate change research"
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN ... &RCN=27835

NASA Scientist Finds A New Way To The Center Of The Earth
"Knowing the relative motions of the mass center of Earth's system and the mass center of the solid Earth can_help scientists better determine the rate at which ice in Greenland and Antarctica is melting into the ocean"
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 084458.htm

China braces for more rain after storms kill 76
"Rice crops were just devastated. It's not far from harvest but they have all been destroyed"
http://www.reuters.com/article/environm ... 7220070612

First in-situ observations of strong ionospheric perturbations generated by a powerful VLF ground-based transmitter
"The phenomenon is due to the electron and ion heating induced by the powerful transmitter VLF wave. This perturbation is in addition to the already known precipitation of energetic particles which interact with the VLF wave through a cyclotron resonance mechanism"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 9368.shtml

Chile's Biggest Freshwater Reserve Left Unprotected
"77 percent of the planet's freshwater is frozen at the poles or in mountain glaciers. South America holds 28 percent of that icy resource"
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=38135

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Post by Janus232 » 06-18-2007 07:07 AM

A Climate Culprit In Darfur
"The Darfur conflict began as an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change..... For the first time in memory, there was no longer enough food and water for all. Fighting broke out"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01857.html

Banking on climate change’s consequences
"The technologies that are already on the market offer everything we need and more, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions dramatically"
http://www.climatechangecorp.com/conten ... entID=4852

Ocean currents carried kapok seeds from South America to Africa
"In order to plan for and mitigate global climate change, we need to understand the history of life on Earth through studies like this one"
http://www.nature-science.info/news/07061701.htm

Heat stress intensification in the Mediterranean climate change hotspot
"We find that elevated greenhouse gas concentrations dramatically increase heat stress risk in the Mediterranean region, with the occurrence of hot extremes increasing by 200 to 500% throughout the region"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 0000.shtml

Norway, UK subsea CO2 storage plans gain momentum
"This technology can really make a difference in countries like China...where a new coal-fired power station is launched every four days"
http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/art ... RTHSEA.XML

Research shows changes in Gulf Stream may help offset warming
Drange played down the possibility of a massive influx of freshwater disrupting the mechanism that drives ocean circulation "There is no indication that this is happening now. and we don't expect it will happen in this century"
http://www.theeagle.com/stories/061707/ ... 617039.php

Snowmelt on the rise in Greenland
"There are several reasons why the melting of Greenland's ice sheets should be cause for concern.... Meltwater can provide a source of freshwater to the ocean, which can raise sea levels and wreak havoc on North Atlantic circulation and the climate.... Meltwater can also percolate through the ice sheet and lubricate the bedrock and ice interface"
http://www.geotimes.org/june07/article. ... 60707.html

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