Earlier, the hospitals' crisis was described as being at "melting point" following the cancellation of all non-emergency surgery at Craigavon Area Hospital due to record bed shortages.

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Two decades after Al Gore's historic hearings and James Hansen's histrionic Earth temperature-tipping point prognostications replete with dire eyeball-sizzling, sea level-surging, North Pole-melting, Water World-producing consequences, the planet seems to have entered another cooling phase.

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Environmentalists point to Inuit communities threatened by melting ice in Greenland, and those living around the fast-shrinking Lake Chad in Africa, as among many already feeling the effects.

CNN: Drowning islands warn of future perils for 'environmental refugees'