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CLIMATE CHANGE: CATASTROPHES INEVITABLE, SAYS NEW REPORT.

Publication: Interpress Service
Publication Date: 01-FEB-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
by Julio Godoy

PARIS, Feb. 1, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- The outlook isn't good. Scientific findings confirm that global warming and its effect on nature and weather cycles will produce catastrophic results over the coming decades.

Meeting in Paris this week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is completing the final draft of its fourth assessment on global warming. The report, which will be released Feb. 2, confirms predictions that global temperatures will rise between 2 and 4.5 degrees Celsius during this century as a result of growing emissions from greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide.

A draft of the document stated, "Anthropogenic (man-made) warming of the climate system is widespread and can be detected in temperature observations taken at the surface, in the free atmosphere and in the oceans.

"It is highly likely that the...

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