guardian.co.uk - 3/13/2009
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What's clear from Copenhagen is that policymakers have fallen behind the scientists: global warming is already catastrophic The more we know, the grimmer it gets. Presentations by climate scientists at this week's conference in Copenhagen show that we might have underplayed the impacts of ...
guardian.co.uk - 3/12/2009
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Even severe cuts in deforestation and carbon emissions
will fail to save the jungle, experts say Global...
warming will wreck attempts to save the Amazon rainforest, according to a devastating new study which predicts that one-third of its trees will ...
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Climate changing too fast to save Amazon, experts warn
guardian.co.uk - 3/12/2009
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Economist says his 2006 groundbreaking report underestimated risk
and accuses governments of not being ready for consequences...
of 6C temperature rise Politicians have failed to take on board the severe consequences of failing to cut world carbon ...
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Stern: I underestimated the dangers of global warming
guardian.co.uk - 3/13/2009
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• Increase much higher than previously forecast •
Change could displace 10% of world's population Global sea...
levels could rise much higher this century than previously projected, raising the threat level for millions of people who live in low-lying ...
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Sea level could rise more than a metre by 2100
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The good news from Copenhagen
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... To this end, the scientific, political and business community need to instigate an immediate change in the terminology they are using to describe global warming. Environmental campaigner George Monbiot's suggestion this week that we should substitute the passive "climate change" for the more accurate "climate breakdown" might seem like a semantic side issue, but if adopted widely enough it could have a huge impact. ...
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