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Global warming reaching point-of-no-return: Report
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| Hindustan Times , Monday, January 24, 2005 |
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| Global warming is reaching the point-of-no-return, with widespread drought, crop failure and water shortages the likely result, according to a new international report highlighted in the British press on Monday.The countdown to climate-change catastrophe is spelt out by a task force of senior politicians, business leaders and academics.In 10 years or less, they predict, the catastrophic point-of-no-return may be reached, The Independent daily reported.
The new study, "Meeting The Climate Challenge", has been timed to coincide with British Prime Minister Tony Blair's promised efforts to advance climate change policy this year as head of both the G8 group of richest nations and the European Union.The report was assembled by the Institute for Public Policy Research in Britain, the Centre for American Progress in the United States and The Australia Institute. It says the danger point will be signalled when temperatures rise by two degrees centigrade above the average world temperature prevailing in 1750, before the industrial revolution.
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