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Britain's most senior independent scientist has warned that global warming threatens to ruin the international initiative to lift Africa out of poverty.

Lord May of Oxford, the president of the Royal Society, said the cost of dealing with the adverse effects of climate change could soak up all the aid to African countries.

Source: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1024-04.htm

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