BEBI IS OFFLINE 4 A WHILE

joo6885 · 0 - 9 Joined: 03 Jul 2006 Posts: 1 Location: Cambs

Hi all,

Jus to let u all know Bebi has just text me and NTL have buggered her interne so she is offline 4 a while!!

Jo Surprised

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Bebi · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:48 pm Post subject:

Fankoo hunni xxx

I'm limping along on dial-up right now, we're in the process of going AOL Broadband through BT again and it's gonna take the usual 10 working days to get up and running...

Therefore I won't be about as often (or as fast LOL) as before, but as soon as it's all going ok I will be back! Smilie_PDT

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aamaomao · 0 - 9 Joined: 10 Aug 2009 Posts: 5

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Population decrease and increase
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Global warming
A recent research report indicates that it is quite possible that the Earth’s temperature is rising well above the previous estimate. Such an result would have severe consequences.
A research team from the University of Colorado used satellite data to estimate that the ice sheet will lose up to 48 cubic miles by 2050. In comparison, a city with the size of Los Angeles uses one cubic mile of fresh water every year. Ice shelves in the Antarctic will have decreased by more than 7,200 square miles in the next four decades.
Water shortage
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Africa’s rivers face dramatic change that will leave a quarter of the continent severely short of water by the middle of the century.
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If we continue to burn fossil fuels at current rates, levels of carbon dioxide④ in the atmosphere will reach 550 ppm (parts per million) by around 2050. This will increase global temperatures between 1.4 and 4.8℃ by 2050, and sea levels will rise between 0.09 and 0.78 meters.