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Sat 05 May 2004Here is the fearsome weather forecastEnvironment: In the blink of an eye, by geological time standards, we are engaging in an experiment which could return our planet to the atmospheric conditions that existed 50 million years ago, when crocodiles patrolled the warm water swamps of Greenland.It is strange, then, that the story of global warming still seems to be leaving people cold.