Article: Global Warming: A UNITED NATIONS GROUP of more than 2,500 scientists says, with 90 percent certainty, that human activity is the cause. They say burning of fossil fuels is warming the earth and eventually will cause mass starvation and flooding.

Byline: Patrick Lester

Apr. 22--Tom Pritchett had just spent two hours pounding home the dire consequences of the Earth's rising temperature when he was asked to provide a morsel of hope. Momentarily speechless, the Cedar Crest College professor didn't have much to offer. With glaciers melting and hurricanes intensifying, he said, the time to reduce man-made pollution that's changing the Earth's climate is long overdue. "There's too much in this society that 'It's not a problem,' " Pritchett, an environmental science instructor, said during a slide show on climate change in Bethlehem. "Even if we fix [the problem] today, carbon dioxide emissions will ...

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