New climate report dire, but offers hope

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

WASHINGTON -- Rising sea levels, sweltering temperatures, deeper droughts, and heavier downpours -- global warming's serious effects are already here and getting worse, the Obama administration warned Tuesday in the grimmest, most urgent language on climate change ever to come out of any White House.

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