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Britain publishes doomsday climate change vision
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October 22, 2009, Thursday
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TWO British Cabinet ministers are showing off a doomsday vision of disappearing cities and rising seas in an effort to push nations to strike a new pact on curbing emissions of global warming gasses.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband and his brother, Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband, planned today to publish a map detailing the predicted impact of a 4 degrees Celsius (7 Fahrenheit) rise in global temperatures.
The map has been prepared by scientists at the British Meteorological Office.
Nations meeting at a summit in Denmark in December aim to strike agreement on new action to limit temperature rises as a result of climate change to 2 degrees Celsius.
Britain has pledged to cut carbon dioxide emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband and his brother, Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband, planned today to publish a map detailing the predicted impact of a 4 degrees Celsius (7 Fahrenheit) rise in global temperatures.
The map has been prepared by scientists at the British Meteorological Office.
Nations meeting at a summit in Denmark in December aim to strike agreement on new action to limit temperature rises as a result of climate change to 2 degrees Celsius.
Britain has pledged to cut carbon dioxide emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050.
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