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Posted Mon Mar 10 2008: from People's Daily (China):
Amazon's worst-ever drought in 2005 caused by global warming http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1205181361
"Brazil's drought in 2005, the worst-ever hitting the Amazon, was caused by global warming instead of the El Nino weather phenomenon as previously thought, the country's National Space Research Institute (INPE) announced Sunday. "The idea that a drought comes with every El Nino is simply not correct," said INPE researcher Carlos Nobre who studied the temperature of the Atlantic Ocean and Amazon rainfall. "El Nino does not affect the southwestern Amazon region."
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That familiar scapegoat, El Nino, is quickly becoming the dead duck of hot-dog boys who cry wolf because they're scaredy cats about global warming.

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