It's Getting Hot in Here...

Earth will warm 3 degrees by 2050, says leaked report


Global temperatures will rise by 2-4.5 degrees centigrade over the next 44 years, according to a draft report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change leaked by the US government this week.

The mid-range estimate of a 3-degree increase would most likely cause drought, famine and mass extinction, according to an earlier report by the UK's chief scientific adviser Sir David King.

2005 and 1998 were the warmest two years on record. Five of the six warmest years have occurred in the past five years (2001-2005)

The draft that emerged this week deals with the physical causes of climate change and will feed into the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report, to be completed by 2007. It was made public by a US government committee, which justified the action by saying it wanted as many people to be able to give feedback as possible.

The report lays much of the responsibility at the foot of mankind. "It is very likely that greenhouse gas forcing has been the dominant cause of the observed global warming over the past 50 years," it says.

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