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Global climate change will affect the physical, biological, and biogeochemical characteristics of the oceans and coasts, modifying their ecological structure, their functions, and the goods and services they provide. Fluctuations in fish abundance increasingly are regarded as a biological response to medium-term climate-ocean variations, and not just as a result of over-fishing and other anthropogenic factors. With global warming and sea-level rise, many coastal systems will experience accelerated coastal erosion, elevated sea-surface and ground temperatures, [and] increased levels of inundation and storm flooding.

· CLIMATE CHANGE 2001, INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE

It is said that animals are presciently aware of impending seismic doom. Catfish jump out of water. Bees mysteriously evacuate their hives. Hens stop laying for no apparent cause. Mice appear dazed and can be caught by hand. Deep-sea fish are found at the ocean surface.

· SIMON WINCHESTER’S KRAKATOA: THE DAY THE WORLD EXPLODED: AUGUST 27, 1883

He remembered lying on the floor of a cabin, looking up at the famous gunfighter Texas Jack Omohundro, . . . and clearly seeing there wasn’t anything anywhere but the two of them, that they were the two parts God had made everything else out of.

He’d said, “Jack, you and I are what everything else is made of.”

Texas Jack was working on a bottle of his own. He’d said, “You want the truth? I hate Texas.”

And Charley said, “See there? That’s just what I’m talking about.”

· PETE DEXTER’S DEADWOOD