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Burning all fossil fuels would 'cook' Earth, raise temperatures 8 degrees: study
2016-05-24 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: Burning all the world's known fossil fuels would result in the release of the equivalent of 5 trillion tonnes of carbon dioxide and drive global temperatures 8 degrees warmer than pre-industrial levels by 2300, a report by Canadian researchers has found. The study, published on Tuesday in Nature Climate Change, extended models used for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and found impacts that were "considerably larger" than previously indicated. For instance, by 2300, global temperatures...
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