NEW YORK, April 5, 2007
Nature's Global Warming Warning
Harry Smith: The Signs Of Global Warming Are All Around Us
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Play CBS Video Video Watching The World Melt Away In Full: Scott Pelley looks for - and finds - evidence of global warming in Antarctica where the bottom of the world is literally melting away.
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Video Gore Speaks On Earth's "Fever" In a triumphant return to Capitol Hill, former Vice President Al Gore spoke to members of Congress about the dangers of global warming. Gloria Borger reports.
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Video Brush Fires Rage In SoCal A new round of wildfires is threatening homes in Orange County, Calif. As Sandra Hughes reports, global warming may be extending the wildfire season.
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A polar bear rests with her cubs on the pack ice in the Beaufort Sea in northern Alaska. Polar bears are in deep trouble because of global warming and other factors. (AP/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
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Interactive Global Warming The greenhouse effect, a look at the Kyoto Protocol and a history of the Earth's climate.
The forsythia, crocuses and daffodils are finally showing their colors in Central Park.
Winter here was pretty warm until February; then it grew more typical and lingered just enough to annoy us.
It's hard telling what's normal anymore.
There was a big story in the paper the other day about the Sky Islands, high-altitude regions of Arizona where it sure looks like climate has changed. It's not cold enough to kill the beetles that are chewing on the forests there.
Forest fires are more frequent; it's just drier, I guess.
I saw another story about migratory birds not going as far south as they formally did. You would think that DNA that tells them to move every season would tell them where to go as well. Don't the swallows return to Capistrano every year?
Unless, of course, the rest of the information the birds are processing tell them it's not worth the effort.
In which case, how is the environment where the birds usually go coping with their absence? What plants aren't being pollinated, seeds not being transported or pests gobbled up?
No global warming, right?
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By Harry Smith
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- This is a sophomoric commentary on a scientific issue. It sure is apparent that Mr. Smith not only doesn't understand climate and biology, but he also seems to believe that climate is static, never changing through the ages.
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