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WED: an uncomfortable vision of the future

By Peter Hirst | Fri 5th June 2009 - 8:25 pm

Climate change is occurring much quicker than most people thought it would. This is in part due to positive feedback loops one of which is the melting of the ice caps which results in less heat being reflected back into space,

The following is my offering of what the next 20-30 years might bring. It is intended to give a flavour of the situation we might be in. Please ignore any contradictions and accept it as just one possible fictional scenario. I hope it will contain some lessons of what we can avoid.

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