Will unchecked global warming destroy civilisation by century’s end? What three degrees of global warming really means

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  • Peter Barrett

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v2i1.4190

Keywords:

Intergovernmental Panel, Climate Change, Antarctica, Kyoto Protocol, United Nations Environment Programme

Abstract

A temperature change of 3ºC is something we experience wherever we are on earth every day - in fact a typical daily change in most places is more like 8 or 9ºC. In the past few years scientists have become concerned because global temperature has risen 0.6ºC. So why the fuss?

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Policy Quarterly volume 2 number 1 2006

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2006-01-01

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2006): Policy Quarterly

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