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Earth

Earth’s climate will warm 15 per cent more than we thought

By Michael Le Page

6 December 2017

Smoke

Earth is toast

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CHILDREN born now could live to witness the planet warming more than 4°C, even if we cut greenhouse emissions by a fair amount. That’s one of the terrifying implications of a study that adds to the growing evidence that the “official” projections underestimate future warming.

Basically, it shows between 10 and 20 per cent more warming than previously reported,” says Patrick Brown of Stanford University in California.

The biggest problem for global warming forecasts is that we don’t know how much more carbon dioxide and other climate-altering stuff will be released. Even if we…

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