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Endangered Species Coalition , 221
Greenpeace , 224
National Audubon Society , 227
Natural Resource Defense Council , 230
National Wildlife Federation , 233
Sierra Club , 236
Th e Nature Conservancy , 238
World Wildlife Fund , 241
5 DATA
AND
DOCUMENTS, 247
Introduction , 247
Data , 248
Figure 5.1. Increases in Global CO
2
Emissions in
the Past 55 Years , 248
Figure 5.2. Annual Global Temperature
Increases Worldwide since 1901 in Degrees
Fahrenheit , 248
Figure 5.3. Cumulative Change in
Sea Level for the World’s Oceans
since 1880 , 249
Figure 5.4. Results of Rhinoceros and Elephant
Poaching in Kruger National Park,
South Africa , 249
Figure 5.5. Cumulative Number of Inferred
Extinctions of Frogs in (A) Mesoamerica
and Brazil, and (B) Madagascar and Sahul
Region Where Highly Concentrated in New
Guinea , 250
Table 5.1. Average Number of Flood Days on
U.S. Coasts 1950–1959 Compared with
Flood Days during 2010–2015 , 251
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