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Four degrees and beyond
Source: Science Daily, Date: , 2009
The conference at Oxford University is the first to consider the
global consequences of climate change beyond 2 degrees Celsius, and is
jointly sponsored by University’s Environmental Change Institute, the
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and the Met Office Hadley
Centre. Speaking at the international conference called ‘4 degrees and
beyond’ at Oxford University, Dr Richard Betts, Head of Climate Impacts
at the Met Office Hadley Centre, described the possibility of a 4
degree warming happening ‘before the end of the century’. He added that
a scenario of very intensive fossil fuel burning could bring this
forward by 20 years. The Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at Oxford University
focuses on environmental change across the natural and social sciences
with an orientation to applied and public policy. ECI plays a leading
role in three of the UK Government's main climate research initiatives:
the UK Climate Impacts Programme, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change
Research, and the UK Energy Research Centre.
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