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"[A]ssessments that examine only the next 100 years may well underestimate the magnitude of the eventual impacts."
Scientific consensus on climate changeModel experiments show that even if all radiative forcing agents were — Scientific consensus on climate change
"Model experiments show that even if all radiative forcing agents were held constant at year 2000 levels, a further warming trend would occur in the next two decades at a rate of about 0.1°C per decade, due mainly to the slow response of the oceans. About twice as much warming (0.2°C per decade) would be expected if emissions are within the range of the SRES scenarios."
Scientific consensus on climate change
Scientific consensus on climate change
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There is scientific consensus that the Earth has been consistently warming since the start of the Industrial Revolution, that the rate of recent warming is largely unprecedented, and that this warming is mainly the result of a rapid increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by human activities. The human activities causing this warming include fossil fuel combustion, cement production, a
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