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By 2040, The Sahara Will Be Moving Into Europe And Berlin Will Be As Hot As Baghdad. Atlanta Will End Up A Kudzu Jungle. Phoenix Will Become Uninhabitable, As Will Parts Of Beijing (desert), Miami (rising Seas) And London (floods). Food Shortages Will Drive Millions Of People North, Raising Political Tensions.

Composing Computer Programs To Solve Scientific Problems Is Like Writing Poetry. You Must Choose Every Word With Care And Link It With The Other Words In Perfect Syntax. There Is No Place For Verbosity Or Carelessness. To Become Fluent In A Computer Lnaguage Demands Almost The Antithesis Of Modern Loose Thinking. It Requires Many Interactive Sessions, The Hands-on Use Of The Device. You Do Not Learn A Foreign Language From A Book, Rather You Have To Live In The Country For Year To Let The Langauge Become An Automatic Part Of You, And The Same Is True For Computer Languages.

Imagine A Survivor Of A Failed Civilization With Only A Tattered Book On Aromatherapy For Guidance In Arresting A Cholera Epidemic. Yet, Such A Book Would More Likely Be Found Amid The Debris Than A Comprehensible Medical Text.

Nowadays If You're Dependent On A Grant - And 99% Of Them Are - You Can't Make Mistakes As You Won't Get Another One If You Do.

Climatologists Are All Agreed That We'd Be Lucky To See The End Of This Century Without The World Being A Totally Different Place, And Being 8 Or 9 Degrees Hotter On Average.