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Burning all fossil fuels would scorch Earth: study
2016-05-27 23:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Average temperatures would climb by up to 9.5 degrees Celsius (17 degrees Fahrenheit)-five times the cap on global warming set at climate talks in Paris in December, they reported. In the Arctic region-already heating at more than double the global average-the thermometer would rise an unimaginable 15 C to 20 C. Burning all known reserves of oil, gas and coal would inject about five trillion tonnes of heat-trapping carbon into the atmosphere, mainly in the form of carbon dioxide, a team wrote...
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