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The world on fire
Citation
Bowman, DMJS, The world on fire, New Scientist, New Scientist, London, 204, 2729, pp. 28-29. (2009) [Magazine Article]
Abstract
IF WE are lucky, an international climate agreement will be forged in Copenhagen later this year and emissions targets set in a bid to limit global warming to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels. Agreement in Denmark or not, I find the breezy way so many politicians and commentators talk as if such an increase were no big deal truly amazing. The truth is we have no idea what will happen at those places where you and I live if we raise the global thermostat 2 °C or more. Worse, there is another factor that could crank that thermostat still higher, making life quite as intolerable as the well-understood threat from rising sea levels: fire.
Item Details
Item Type: | Magazine Article |
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Research Division: | Environmental Sciences |
Research Group: | Other environmental sciences |
Research Field: | Other environmental sciences not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Environmental Policy, Climate Change and Natural Hazards |
Objective Group: | Natural hazards |
Objective Field: | Natural hazards not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Bowman, DMJS (Professor David Bowman) |
ID Code: | 62180 |
Year Published: | 2009 |
Deposited By: | Plant Science |
Deposited On: | 2010-03-10 |
Last Modified: | 2011-06-20 |
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