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Even oil companies don't want a 'roasted world'
2014-03-25 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: When climate scientist Rosina Bierbaum speaks, her central theme is the "roasted world" -- a bleak picture of what the planet will probably look like if carbon pollution continues unchecked, leading to 4 degrees Celsius of warming by mid-century. Four degrees may not sound like a lot -- but it would change our lives drastically. Mega-heat waves in 2010 in Europe and Russia were estimated to have caused up to 50,000 heat-related deaths, according to some reports. This "will become the normal,"...
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