ApocaDocs: Temperature rises 'will be double the safe limit' for global warming

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Posted Mon Sep 1 2008: from Edinburgh Scotsman:


	Temperature rises 'will be double the safe limit' for global warming http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1220289624 "IT IS "improbable" global warming will be kept below 4C -- double the rise considered safe to avoid climate catastrophe -- according to an influential new report. Internationally, it has long been agreed governments should be aiming to keep a global temperature rise below 2C, to avoid climate change spiralling out of control. However, a bleak new study by scientists at the Tyndall Centre, a leading organisation for climate change research at the University of Manchester, now suggests we should be adjusting our expectations towards far higher rises."

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The ApocaDocs say:

"Double the safe limit" will mean quadruple the trouble!