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Experts: Bleak Global -Warming Forecast May Be Too Optimistic

Later this week in Paris, climate scientists will issue a dire forecast for the planet that warns of slowly rising sea levels and higher temperatures.But that may be the sugarcoated version.Early and changeable drafts of their upcoming authoritative report on climate change foresee smaller sea level rises than were projected in 2001 in the last report.• Click here for FOXNews.com's Natural Science Center.Many top U.S. scientists reject these rosier numbers. Those calculations don't include the recent, and dramatic, melt-off of big ice sheets in two crucial locations:They "don't take into account the gorillas — Greenland and Antarctica ," said Ohio State University earth sciences professor Lonnie Thompson, a polar ice specialist. "I think there are unpleasant surprises as we move into the 21st century."Michael MacCracken, who until 2001 coordinated the official U.S. government reviews of the international climate report on global warming , has fired off a letter of protest over the omis...

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    Peru's "White Mountain Range" may soon have to change its name.The ice atop Cordillera Blanca , the largest glacier chain in the tropics, is melting fast because of ...

  2. Scientist studying Indonesia's last glacier says it will disappear in years, not decades

    JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Lonnie Thompson spent years preparing for his expedition to the remote, mist-shrouded mountains of eastern Indonesia, hoping to chronicle t...

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    Global warming is shrinking glaciers all over the world, but the seven tongues of ice creeping down Mount Shasta's flanks are a rare exception: They are the only kno...

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