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Climate change: Politicians must act now. UN scientists issue dire warning
22 January 2001
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned today that global climate change is likely to be much more severe than previously feared. Temperatures may rise by almost 6 degrees between 1990 and 2100.
Roger Higman, Climate Campaigner for Friends of the Earth International said:
“This report makes grim reading. Man-made climate change is likely to be worse even than we previously feared. Everyone on the planet is at risk. The time for debating the science of climate change is over. The truth is now clear. But we have been desperately slow in moving from discussion to action.
Climate change should now be at the top of the world political agenda. In particular, the United States must end its long history of denial about the truth of climate change and resistance to effective action. President Bush must find a way to free himself from the fossil fuel lobby that paid so much money to get him elected. And European politicians must stop squabbling among themselves and put the pressure on the US to agree tough cuts in the burning of coal, oil and gas.”
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