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BROOKHAVEN • CEDAR VALLEY • EASTFIELD • EL CENTRO MOUNTAIN VIEW • NORTH LAKE 'RICHLAND • DALLAS TELECOLLEGE E3 The Dallas County Community College District 10A Thursday, April 18, 2002 SCf THE BATH HE BATTAL Just starting to heat uN e ^ Global warming may be worse than predil Ibu (AP) — Global warming by the end of the cen tury could be noticeably worse than a U.N. panel has predicted, according to two new studies. Last year, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted that aver age global temperatures could rise as much as 10.5 degrees Fahrenheit over the next century as heat-trap ping gases from industry and other sources accumulate in the atmos phere. The new studies, conducted sep arately by Swiss and British researchers, suggest that tempera tures could rise by as much as an additional two degrees. Their reports are published in the current issue of the journal Nature. We are more likely to inuierestittiate future warming than overestimate. Benjamin Preston, a senior research fellow at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, said the U.N. report lias been criticized because it did not attempt to quantify the uncertainty in the projections. Climate models are enormously complex pro grams run on supercomputer^. They attempt to simulate how the planet’s climate wiiul over decades as more carbon dioxideaai wEW ENGLj greenhouse gases build up m tbe atnn isuccess yet f Among their shortcomings: the role of Ee apparent I \ Pti >n by ran an d deadl an iik ompleie uiulerstandiiigi Kbed "bubble urai climate changes ovenkiBrhe boys, fol ^rs have healtl I he new papers "give; Imaiiy and liv credence to those who are Ijjt months in a for immediate action”saidft ■id not fight ot u ho did not contribute n fifth boy wa work. "We are more likely le, ■roving with ( estimate future warmingtkMlwo years a estimate. T he uncertaintiei success with the climate models suggest . Bursday’s New lean toward being more shows the treatn than more cavalier.” ■“This is the 1 In the first study, climate moddetsft 6 f ata * disea l niversity of Bern in Switzerland pron\:;:K ra P> as llic 1 — Benjamin Preston Pew Center on Global Climate Change peratures would rise 7.7 degrees by 2lB s reverse< *’ . * , , , ■ the immune ,,nha4(l|v l vc-,il,h.,,K, ih ; , ls lobala»TOB |lonal HunK , peratures will be higlu i In 7inn thanprtBL ls cxclllll . by the 1PCC The study is' Antibiotic resistant NEWS IN BRIEF strep throat outbreak Stem cell therai slows MS (AP) — For the first time, doctors have documented a large-scale U.S. outbreak of antibiotic-resistant strep throat — an episode involving at least 46 Pittsburgh schoolchildren. Until now, antibiotics have easily killed group A streptococ cus, the bacteria that cause strep throat and life-threatening septic infections, so doctors at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh were startled by its sudden, widespread resistance to widely used erythromycin. The drug is commonly given to people aller gic to penicillin and other patients. Doctors suspect the strep bac teria also are becoming resistant to other popular drugs in the same antibiotic family, the macrolides. Their use is growing because they require only one dose a day, compared with three for many other antibiotics. The jump in resistance began early last year at a Pittsburgh private school, where roughly half the strep throat cases were found to be untreatable with erythromycin. All the children were successfully treated with other drugs. “It definitely went from one kid to another in the school and it also spilled over into the com munity.” said lead researcher Dr. Judith M. 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