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Article: An economic melt down? Report shows clearly why the U.S. must turn its energy-guzzling thermostat down.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services)
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- June 15, 2000
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WASHINGTON _ Anyone who still thinks of global warming as an unproven problem off in the misty future has disquieting news waiting in a landmark climate study released this week.
The congressionally mandated ``Climate Change Impacts on the United States'' provides the first region-by-region forecast of global warming's likely effects in the United States. And it paints a picture of an America transformed _ landscape altered in fundamental and disturbing ways from the one in which we live today.
The most detailed forecast yet undertaken for any country, the national assessment brings global warming home by documenting the complex and profound changes in ...