Telegraph: Have we been granted a reprieve in the battle against global warming? If research by Alexander Otto and colleagues at Oxford University is to be believed, the climate is less sensitive to carbon emissions than we believed. Climate change is by no means over, but we may have more of a breathing space to do something about it.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes previous best estimate put climate sensitivity at 3C; that is, for every doubling of carbon dioxide concentrations in the...