Saturday, September 28, 2013

Experts set threshold for climate-change calamity

Researchers say an emissions tipping point for the planet may be 25 years away.



The world's leading climate scientists have for the first time established a limit on the amount of greenhouse gases that can be released before the Earth reaches a tipping point and predicted that it will be surpassed within decades unless swift action is taken to curb the current pace of emissions.



via L.A. Times - Science http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/AbGaPOLWkTM/la-me-0928-climate-change-20130928,0,3834345.story

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