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Helen Robertson
London
8 April 2014
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Reports shed uncertainties over stark climate warnings

The studies assess the potential damage that climate change will have

A series of new reports have stressed the uncertainty within the scientific community about the long-term effects anthropogenic climate change. But the studies, including one from the United Nations-back Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), also reiterate the threat climate change poses to the planet. The reports add that the potential damage a rise in temperature will have on the planet is difficult to quantify, with the range of possible changes being so broad it is difficult to predict precisely. This, in turn, has opened fresh debate into how to formulate a response to rising carbon emissions and how energy use should be tempered. The IPCC report, titled Climate Change 2014:

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