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Climate Change - the problems

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A melt lakes on the Greenland ice sheet

The world is warming up. As we burn up the planet’s coal, oil and gas reserves, and cut down its remaining forests, greenhouse gases are pouring into the atmosphere. The delicate balance of atmospheric gases that sustains life is thickening, trapping more and more heat and irreversibly changing our world.

How much climate change can we bear?

Last edited 22 October 2004 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
22 September, 2004

Summary

The consequences of a 2 degree centigrade rise in global temperature and how to avoid it.

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