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Climate change adapting to the inevitable.

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Climate change is no longer a question of if or when. The impact of warming is evident right now, and so is the human contribution. Even if greenhouse gas emissions are significantly reduced, the change is inevitable. So it's time to prepare for floods, droughts, and other catastrophes. That's the latest

from an international panel with hundreds of scientists from more than 100 countries. On to the

point, who will be hit the hardest? What does it mean to prepare? What are the potential consequences

in the United States? On reporter's notebook later on, President Bush, immigration reform, and differences that cross

party lines.

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Hello again, Marvin Ali back with To the Point. Climate change due to global warming is inevitable. In fact, it's happening now.

On To the Point, what are the potential consequences for people in the United States and around the world?

What can be done to prepare? On reporter's

notebook from Arizona's border with Mexico to new battles on Capitol Hill, President Bush revisits

immigration reform. First, this news update on this fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad,

tens of thousands of anti-American protesters draped themselves in Iraqi flags today in the holy

cities of Kufa and Najav. They were marching to the tune of the powerful Shiite cleric

Muqqqqqada al-Sadr. Edward Wong is in Baghdad for the New York Times, and Edward, thanks very

much for joining us. Hi, how are you doing? Good. What appears to have been the immediate goal?

Well, the goals of protest was basically, I think it can be interpreted to basically

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