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  <title>Green Options &#187; Atlantic Ocean conveyor belt</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Odds on Earth</title>
    <link>http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/02/20/odds-on-earth/</link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Shirley Siluk Gregory</dc:creator>
    
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    <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://go635254.s3.amazonaws.com/planetsave/files/2008/02/dice.gif" alt='A roll of the dice.' />The recent news that <a href="http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/02/12/rip-lake-mead-us-southwest/">Lake Mead has a 50-50 chance of going dry in the next 13 years</a> was scary enough, but there doesn&#8217;t seem to be any shortage of ominous Earth news these days. Based on recent research, here are some of the odds we&#8217;re facing:</p>
<p>Amount of coral reefs that will be in ocean waters <a href="http://ecoscraps.com/2007/12/13/farewell-coral-reefs/">too acidic for them to survive</a> by 2050: 98 percent</p>
<p>Increase in number of days with <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071204121949.htm">conditions favorable for severe storms</a> by 2100: 100 percent </p>
<p>Odds that inland regions of Australia could see <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071003130920.htm">temperature increases of more than 4 degrees Centigrade</a> if carbon dioxide emissions remain high: 20 to 50 percent</p>
<p>Number of <i>additional</i> people <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070410134724.htm">at risk of hunger due to climate change</a> by 2050: 132 million</p>
<p>Amount by which <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070410134724.htm">wheat production in Bangladesh might decrease</a> by 2050 due to climate change: one third</p>
<p>Amount of <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070410134724.htm">Asian biodiversity at risk</a> because of climate change: half</p>
<p>Chance that the Atlantic Ocean&#8217;s &#8220;conveyor belt&#8221; that keeps weather mild in Europe could <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-12/uoia-gwc120705.php">shut down sometime this century</a> if no changes are made to climate policy: 45 percent</p>
<p>Chance that the Atlantic Ocean&#8217;s &#8220;conveyor belt&#8221; that keeps weather mild in Europe could shut down <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-12/uoia-gwc120705.php">over the next 200 years</a> if no changes are made to climate policy: 70 percent</p>
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