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    1) Scientists warn that failure to cut greenhouse gas emissions will lead to devastating climate change within decades, including more droughts, powerful hurricanes, and increased exposure to diseases like malaria and dengue fever. 2) A report from the IPCC concludes that average global temperatures could increase up to 2°C in the next 20-30 years if emissions continue rising at their current rate, and substantial reductions are needed to avoid this outcome. 3) Experts warn that to limit warming to 2°C, total emissions cannot exceed 1,000 gigatons of carbon, but over half of that total has already been emitted, so some fossil fuels must be left unexploited.

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    1) Scientists warn that failure to cut greenhouse gas emissions will lead to devastating climate change within decades, including more droughts, powerful hurricanes, and increased exposure to diseases like malaria and dengue fever. 2) A report from the IPCC concludes that average global temperatures could increase up to 2°C in the next 20-30 years if emissions continue rising at their current rate, and substantial reductions are needed to avoid this outcome. 3) Experts warn that to limit warming to 2°C, total emissions cannot exceed 1,000 gigatons of carbon, but over half of that total has already been emitted, so some fossil fuels must be left unexploited.

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    1) Scientists warn that failure to cut greenhouse gas emissions will lead to devastating climate change within decades, including more droughts, powerful hurricanes, and increased exposure to diseases like malaria and dengue fever. 2) A report from the IPCC concludes that average global temperatures could increase up to 2°C in the next 20-30 years if emissions continue rising at their current rate, and substantial reductions are needed to avoid this outcome. 3) Experts warn that to limit warming to 2°C, total emissions cannot exceed 1,000 gigatons of carbon, but over half of that total has already been emitted, so some fossil fuels must be left unexploited.

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    It's not if, it's when

    The world's scientists have given their starkest warning yet that
    a failure to cut greenhouse-gas emissions will bring devastating
    climate change within a few decades. As droughts affect more
    areas for more prolonged periods i
    timated that global food
    production will fall by 10%. Conv r~ely,we are experiencing more
    powerful hurricanes, which re ults In both human tragedy and
    costly damage to infrastructure. There are dire predictions of 80
    million more people being exposed to malaria and 2.5 billion to
    dengue fever.
    The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on lim te
    Change (IPCe) concludes that average temperatures could
    increase by as much as 2C within the next 20 to 30 years if
    emissions continue to rise at the present rate. The Panel warns
    that 'substantial and sustained' reductions in greenhouse-gas
    emissions are essential if such a potentially disastrous rise is to
    be avoided.
    Ban-Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General, is urging world leaders to
    heed the 'world's authority on climate change' and agree a new
    global deal on cutting emissions. John Kerry, the US secretary of
    state, said in a statement: 'This is yet another wakeup call: those
    who deny the science or choose excuses over ction are playing
    with fire:
    Climatologist Dr Bateman warns that to hold warming to 2C, total
    emissions cannot exceed 1,000 gigatons of carbon. Yet by 2011,
    more than half of that total 'allowance' - 531 gigatons - had
    already been emitted. Dr Bateman adds that the only way to avoid
    serious consequences will be to make sure that som valuable
    fossil fuels are left unexploited. But this is something that it will be
    hard to get everyone to agree to.
    Jasper Purdy of Environment Watch goes to great lengths to point
    out that a disastrous outcome is not inevitable. If there were a
    significant switch to clean and resource-efficient technologies, we
    could cut xpected temperature rises by half. He stresses that what
    is needed is intet'national political commitment to take action _
    something which has been ab nt so far.

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