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September 25, 2009

Study Warns of Global Temperature Rise
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A new study says global warming is increasing at a higher rate than
previously thought. The United Nations Environment Program says
researchers now predict the planet’s temperature will rise 6.3 degrees
Fahrenheit by the end of the century even if the most ambitious
proposals to address climate change are enacted. The temperature rise is
two times higher than what scientists have previously identified as the
maximum humans can afford to avert a climate disaster.



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