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245			_aDangerous climate change - is the world on the brink?
260			_c2005
490			_aENDS Report _v(361) February 2005, 17-21(5)
520			_aReports on the significantly mounting evidence that greenhouse gas emissions will cause serious interference to the global climate, with the possibility of ocean acidification threatening entire marine ecosystems, polar ice caps melting and the Gulf Stream shutting down. Points to an emerging consensus that aglobal temperature increase must be limited to two degrees centigrade and that a concerted and urgent action to halve global emissions by 2050. Outlines a climate choreography for the G8 Summit and lists the key recommendations of the Climate Task Force established in March 2004. Diagram covers predicted changes in the Greenland ice sheet and a graph illustrates vegetation and soil as net carbon sources.
590			_aABS
650			_aCARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS
650			_aGREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
650			_aCLIMATE CHANGE
690			_aENVIRONMENTAL AND LAND CONSULTANCY
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