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Levels of carbon dioxide accumulating in the atmosphere aresharply increasing, which means that climate change mayoccur sooner than expected.

Michael McCarthy writes in the Independent that the suddenjump in CO2 can’t be explained by a sudden increase ingreenhouse gases from utilities or automobiles?because therehasn’t been one.

Scientists think the sudden increase may be the beginning ofthe sudden climate change described in “The Coming GlobalSuperstorm” by Whitley Strieber and Art Bell, and the film”The Day After Tomorrow,” which was inspired by their book.
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Scottwrites, in one of our newCommunionLetters: I would like to share an experience my mother andI had with what I would classify as an Orb.

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This time Australia is the lucky locale. Hundreds of peopleare lining up in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens to get aglimpse of the rarely-blooming Titan Arum, also known as the”corpse flower,” which has the world’s largest and worstsmelling blooms.

The smell is described as something like rotting flesh andits flowers can have a diameter of as much as four feet.They release the stench in order to attract insects.
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German scientists have found that mutations in the MC4R genehave a “major” impact on people’s body mass index. Peoplewho have the mutations are much heavier than those who donot.

The researchers examined the body weights and DNA of 181relatives of 25 extremely obese patients who carry the genemutation, and found that the people who had the geneticmutation were significantly heavier. They say this provesthat this mutation is linked to a “strong predisposition” toobesity. They say, “It is well known that body weight isinfluenced by many genetic and environmental factors.” Butthey think the mutations do not, by themselves, account forobesity, because some thin people also carry the geneticmutations.
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