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Article: Stark warning on global warming; U.N. report predicts worldwide catastrophe, but scientists complain it was watered down.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- April 7, 2007
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Byline: ALAN ZAREMBO and THOMAS H. MAUGH II - Los Angeles Times
A new global warming report issued Friday by the United Nations paints a near-apocalyptic vision of Earth's future: more than a billion people in need of water, extreme food shortages in Africa, a planetary landscape ravaged by floods and millions of species sentenced to extinction.
But despite the harshness of its vision, the report was quickly criticized by scientists who said its findings were watered down at the last minute by government bureaucrats seeking to deflect calls for action.
"The science got hijacked by the political bureaucrats at the late stage of the game," said John Walsh, a climate ...