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Article: Global warming: time to reverse it.(Editorial)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- January 26, 2007
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Presentations like former Vice President Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" and, increasingly, nature itself, seem to pound home a truth: Global warming is beyond doubt, human activity has a great deal to do with it and we need to act quickly to reverse the trend.
Evidence pushes the imagination to the limit. Components of our environment that once were timeless manifestations of the earth's constancy and its imperviousness to human influence are literally melting away and changing before our eyes.
This is how significant and yet common the phenomenon is becoming. In a recent issue of The New York Times, a story that documented the melting of glacier ice in ...