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Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist

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Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist

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Prof James Hansen says pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, though other scientists disagree

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Thanks for looking it up. It does look a lot less bad than I expected.

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