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Article: Global warming and religious stick fighting.
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- CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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Global warming has received a spate of media and popular attention recently. News clips and television programs tug at our hearts by showing polar bears stranded on plazas of ice, hopelessly peering at us as we helplessly peer back. And icebergs, millions of years old, are shown "calving" huge chunks of themselves into the warming waters tracing their shrinking contours. "Calving" has even become something of an entertainment spectacle and a tourist attraction. I have heard about some cruise lines that entice customers with the promise of witnessing the melting icebergs.
Al Gore's thoughtful documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, has also generated an upsurge of ...