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<div><b>Friday, 2 April 04 - 7:30p : AMC Cabot Auditorium - 3 Joy St.
Boston</b><br>
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AMC Conservation Action Network Sponored Event<br>
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<div><b>TALKING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE</b>
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<div><b>Jim Motavalli</b> (ed.) and<b> Ross Gelbspan</b>
(contributor)</div>
<div> <u>Feeling the Heat: Dispatches From the Frontlines of
Climate Change</u><br>
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Come here Jim and Ross talk about latest manifestations of climate
change that have begun appearing across the world. Also featured
will be slides by award-winning nature photographer Gary Braasch.
Jim is a frequent contributor to AMC Outdoors and is the author of two
books on alternative transportation. Many of you will remember
Ross Gelbspan as an environmental reporter for the Boston Globe, and
subsequent author of The Heat Is On several years ago. (More
below).<br>
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<div>Walk, run,<i><b> SWIM</b></i>!, to Joy St. tomorrow and 'get
nervous.' Coffee and refreshments provided.<br>
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More info at...<br>
http://ga0.org/amc/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=2669011<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Steve Connors,<br>
Chair, Boston Chapter Conservation Committee<br>
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*** First Ever South Atlantic Hurricane Hits Brazil ***<br>
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http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2004-03-28-brazil-storm_x.htm<br>
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<div>***<b> Feeling the Heat</b> - Book Blurb ***</div>
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Did you know that climate change will probably also mean global
cooling? That could indeed be one effect in western Europe and parts
of New England, as melting polar ice forces changes to the Gulf Stream
(which carries warm water from the Pacific, raising temperatures in
what would otherwise be chilly latitudes). And these unprecedented
changes--detailed in a recent chilling Pentagon report that sees
global warming as potentially more dangerous than terrorism--could
happen in 10-20 years, not the next century.<br>
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Jim Motavalli is editor of E/The Environmental Magazine, a frequent
New York Times contributor and author of two previous books, Forward
Drive: The Race to Build Clean Cars for the Future, and Breaking
Gridlock: Moving Toward Transportation That Works (both Sierra Club
Books). Boston-based Ross Gelbspan is a veteran journalist with The
Philadelphia Bulletin, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe, and
is the author of The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-up, the
Prescription (Perseus Books, 1998).<br>
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Feeling the Heat is the missing link in global warming literature; a
reporter's book written not from the UN floor or the scientists' lab,
but from the world's "hot spots" where this dangerous shift
has already started. Instead of conjecture, it documents with vivid,
on-the-spot prose the dramatic impact of rising tides, melting
glaciers, disappearing beaches and intensifying storms on people's
lives today.<br>
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For an increasing number of people, global warming is not an academic
and scientific debate, but a matter of survival. From the frozen
Arctic to the tropical islands at the earth's Equator, people are
being affected by dramatic changes in long-established climatic
patterns and the very geography of the places they call home. As the
planet warms at a rate of four degrees Fahrenheit per century, violent
storms are increasing in frequency, icebergs are melting, sea level is
rising, species are losing their habitats, and temperature records are
being broken.<br>
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Feeling The Heat is not a dry discussion, dotted with computer models
and scientific back-and-forth; it's a travelogue to actual world hot
spots, where people are already coping day-to-day with the
consequences of climactic disruption.<br>
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>From China to New York, minor changes in what were fairly established
weather patterns have already produced profound and permanent effects
on local ecosystems. Fish species are disappearing, with ripples
throughout the food chain. Birds and butterflies are moving, turning
up in places they have never been seen before. Some plants are dying,
others thrive. In France alone 10,000 people die from a prolonged
heatwave that hit Europe in the summer of 2003. A mere few months
later, the Eastern Seaboard experiences a cold front that sets records
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The locations for the book were strategically chosen because each
represents a separate and important global warming impact, such as
rising tides, melting glaciers, evolving ecosystems and air pollution.
They are: the California coast, where sea level has risen between
three and eight inches; the low-lying islands of Antigua and Barbuda,
members of the threatened Alliance of Small Island States, which has
proposed a very modest 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas
emissions; New Jersey, where "the largest and costliest 'beach
nourishment' project ever" is underway; Alaska, deeply impacted
by warming temperatures and melting ice; western Europe, under attack
both by rising seas and a loss of warming Gulf Stream waters;
Australia's Great Barrier Reef, threatened by coral bleaching and
rising tides; China, where rapid industrialization has pushed sharp
increases in fossil fuel use; India, challenged by a vast air
pollution haze; New York City, which has formed a coalition to fight
climate change; the Pacific Northwest, whose mountains are slowly
losing their snow cover; Fiji, threatened with total disappearance by
sea level rise; and the Antarctic, where the habitat of penguins and
other birds has been disrupted and polar ice is breaking up, as
scientists predicted.<br>
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Global warming is no longer a matter for serious debate, these authors
say, it is real and it is here.<br>
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