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Global Storm Warning

Hertsgaard, Mark | October 17, 2005 issue

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Offers a discussion about the impact of global warming on severe storms and hurricanes. Suggestion that Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast of the United States was a clear call for the U.S. to get serious about global warming; Pollution from petrochemical factories and from the production of oil and natural gas; Reference to the book "Diamond," by Steve Lerner; Pollution of the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico from fertilizer and pesticide runoff; Decline of Louisiana's wetlands due to overdevelopment; Reference to the book "The End of Nature," by Bill McKibben; Reference to the book "The Heat Is On," by Ross Gelbspan.

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GLOBAL warming; NATURAL disasters; AIR -- Pollution; GLOBAL temperature changes; ENVIRONMENTAL degradation; WATER -- Pollution; DIAMOND (Book); UNITED States

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