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Thu 11 Nov 2009Kenny stirs up bogus climate change debate
As evidence for global warming driven by human impacts stacks up, public opinion on the issue is wilting, writes JOHN GIBBONS
WHATEVER HAPPENS next month at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen, humanity has almost certainly already crossed the climate Rubicon. A study earlier this year from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows how changes in surface temperatures, rainfall and sea levels are largely irreversible for upwards of 1,000 years, even if all CO2 emissions were somehow to completely stop.
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