Chilling a hot planet: Many solutions, no answers

If there was a report card on how the world is doing on issues related to climate change, it would read a resounding 'F'. Consider the figures. It took about 12,500 years between the last glacial age and today for global temperatures to rise six degrees Celsius. Yet in this century alone –...

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spelling sg-smu-ink.pers-13122017-03-22T05:45:48Z Chilling a hot planet: Many solutions, no answers Singapore Management University If there was a report card on how the world is doing on issues related to climate change, it would read a resounding 'F'. Consider the figures. It took about 12,500 years between the last glacial age and today for global temperatures to rise six degrees Celsius. Yet in this century alone – despite heightened awareness of the need to arrest the ever-increasing levels of greenhouse gas emission – temperatures have risen up to four degrees Celsius. 2011-12-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/pers/304 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1312&context=pers http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Perspectives@SMU eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Environmental Sciences Natural Resource Economics Natural Resources and Conservation
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Chilling a hot planet: Many solutions, no answers
description If there was a report card on how the world is doing on issues related to climate change, it would read a resounding 'F'. Consider the figures. It took about 12,500 years between the last glacial age and today for global temperatures to rise six degrees Celsius. Yet in this century alone – despite heightened awareness of the need to arrest the ever-increasing levels of greenhouse gas emission – temperatures have risen up to four degrees Celsius.
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