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(Nov. 19, 2008, Laguna Journal)

The report predicts, within just two decades the already sensitive areas from China to Africa will have to deal with more droughts, food shortages and scarcity of fresh water.

“The changes in sea level, the changes in temperature, the impact on agriculture, the impact on water availability, the impact that comes from melting in the Arctic and opening up resources and extending growing seasons in some places, and shortening them in others. That is going to happen,” he said. “All we can begin to do now is prepare to mitigate those impacts.”

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