Dan Rather opens the "CBS Evening News," February 19, 2001:

The forecast from Hell: Why America may see more killer tornados and floods, hurricanes and wildfires in the years ahead.... Good evening [sic]. There are new and dire predictions tonight about the future of our planet. Around the world glaciers are in full retreat. Some, like the ancient ice cap on Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa, could be gone in a decade or two. It's a dramatic symptom of the warming of the Earth detailed in a new thousand-page United Nations report, Climate Change 2001. It predicts the new century will bring, and I quote, Large scale, and possibly irreversible, changes affecting every last person on Earth.

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