Global Warming Expected To Heat Up New Millennium, Says EDF
A new comparison of climate in the past millennium with projected climate for the new millennium starkly reveals the rapid onset of global warming and the potential for unprecedented warming in the next thousand years. Charts prepared by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) from existing models of global temperature change, sea-level rise, and carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations, show fairly stable historic patterns, which are beginning to change rapidly.
Without action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the climate of the coming millennium is projected to be much warmer than the past. Global temperature may rise to 10
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