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Article WindowOnly a few days ago came this warning from Bob Watson, the chief scientific adviser to the UK government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra): There is a need to prepare for at least a four-degree rise in temperature over pre-industrial levels by 2050. The Defra chief made a case for the UK to take appropriate steps to reduce that projection figure by two degrees to minimise risks. A similar policy is in place in the European Union. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change headed by R K Pachauri had issued a similar warning in its fourth assessment report released in 2007 where it talked of a possible four-degree increase in global temperature. Now Indian scientists engaged in computing climate models at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology are talking of a four-degree temperature rise over current levels in India after 2050.


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