Third and final report of IPCC fifth assessment released : Short time left to act
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The countries of the world have dragged their feet so long on global warming that only an intensive push in the next 15 years can stave off potential disaster, United Nations-appointed experts said.
rajendrashende‘s insight:
GHG emissions are outrunning our determination to tackle it, with atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rising almost twice as fast in the first decade of this century as they did in the last decades of the 20th century. There is huge rush to use coal-fired power plants in developing countries , while rich countries are making only slow progress in cutting their historically high emissions,
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