World Population Devastated if Predicted 9 Degrees F Temp Increase Occurs

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World Population Devastated if Predicted 9 Degrees F Temp Increase Occurs

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/03/a-predicted-glo.html
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On the closing day of the Congress on Climate Change held last week in Copenhagen, one of the world's leading experts, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, said that if the buildup of greenhouse gases and its consequences pushed global temperatures 9 degrees Fahrenheit higher than today — well below the upper temperature range that scientists project could occur from global warming — Earth’s population would be devastated.

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