<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/66182f97-29bd-44f0-bce4-d1e139854183/ACFDD509-00F8-4443-8C57-17F7DE311C13/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090223/ap_on_sc/sci_climate_update_1" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090223/ap_on_sc/sci_climate_update_1" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090223/ap_on_sc/sci_climate_update_1">The Earth won't have to warm up as much as had been thought to cause serious <SPAN id="lw_1235426756_0" class="yshortcuts">consequences of global warming</SPAN>, including more <SPAN id="lw_1235426756_1" class="yshortcuts">extreme weather</SPAN> and increasing threats to <SPAN id="lw_1235426756_2" class="yshortcuts">plants and animals</SPAN>, says an international team of climate experts.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090223/ap_on_sc/sci_climate_update_1">Now, researchers report that "increases in drought, <SPAN id="lw_1235426756_6" class="yshortcuts">heat waves</SPAN> and floods are projected in many regions and would have adverse impacts, including increased water stress, wildfire frequency and flood risks starting at less than (1.8 degrees) of additional warming above 1990 levels."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090223/ap_on_sc/sci_climate_update_1">The new report, in this week's online edition of Proceedings of the <SPAN id="lw_1235426756_10" class="yshortcuts">National Academy of Science</SPAN>, comes just a week after Christopher Field of the <SPAN id="lw_1235426756_11" class="yshortcuts">Carnegie Institution for Science</SPAN> told the annual meeting of the <SPAN id="lw_1235426756_12" class="yshortcuts">American Association for the Advancement of Science</SPAN> that humans are now adding carbon to the atmosphere even faster than in the 1990s.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090223/ap_on_sc/sci_climate_update_1">The new study found evidence of greater vulnerability to <SPAN id="lw_1235426756_15" class="yshortcuts">climate change</SPAN> for specific populations, such as the poor and elderly</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/ACFDD509-00F8-4443-8C57-17F7DE311C13/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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