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Research
The Forecast:
Sun, Wind and Air
hat will it be like in and droughts, and failure of entire harvests,
plunging the world into long years of famine.”
2040? In a special These beliefs are not without foundation. We
know that our planet has been rapidly warming
W report on the future over the last two hundred years. The U.S. National
of forests published Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s
this year, the XPRIZE climate report reviewed ten climate-change
indicators and discovered that all ten show that
Foundation attempted the temperature is indeed on the rise. It is widely
accepted among climate researchers around
to analyze how global the world today that humans are responsible
for global warming, mainly through the annual
warming will impact release of 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide—a
our world. According to the report’s worst-case
scenario, continued climate change will result in
“many fertile land swaths (turning) into bleached
desert lands,” leading to “destructive and
unexpected weather phenomena like hurricanes
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