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Article: Missing the tide.(United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, global warming)(Brief Article)
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- Mining Journal
- Article date:
- December 1, 2000
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Over billions of years the climate has shaped the Earth's landscape and controlled the flora and fauna which exist. Species have come and gone, and Man's arrival is very recent. We have far to go if we are to match the occupancy time, say, of the trilobites or the 60 million-year reign of the dinosaurs. The climate will be key, and there is mounting evidence that it is currently changing at an uncomfortably rapid rate.
Using data provided by some 3,000 scientists, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has revised significantly higher its earlier predictions of temperature increases, and is now forecasting an increase of as much as 6 [degrees] ...