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How global warming could leave us thirsting for the old days
By popsci Posted 11.09.2007 at 1:40 pm 1 Comment

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Remember that scary prediction from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change a few months back about sea levels rising by as much as 23 inches in the next 100 years and flooding coastal regions and displacing billions of people? Well, that forecast just got a little bit scarier.

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