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Moment of truth
No sooner did James McCarthy's name turn up in an Associated Press story on the outlook for global ing than he started getting outraged emails from colleagues. All that McCarthy, a Harvard oceanographer ate change affects marine life, told the AP last ing response, he said, ean, uch of life on Earth. Last ake 2007 a turning point in the effort to control global ing. On Monday, by a 54 vote, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government had the poissions from vehicles. This victory for environmentalists inistration had no intention of doing anything of the sort. But the ruling set an important precedent for treating carbon dioxide as a threat to human y standards. On Friday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, marshaling the research of nearly 1,000 scientists from 74 countries, issued a longaatechange"impacts, adaptation and vulnerability".The study found that global ing s; it predicted that continued climate change, in bination ental stressors such as population increases and greater urbanization, oresevere and al species. Depending on houch temperature rises, food production in the temperate regions (including parts of the United States and Canada) could actually increase, but uch of the tropics.
Yet at least since last year's congressional elections it's been clear that 2007 er vice president Al Gore has cal