[News] Climate Change Likely To Be More Devastating Than Experts Predicted, Warns Top IPCC S

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ScienceDaily (Feb. 15, 2009) — Without decisive action, global warming in the 21st century is likely to accelerate at a much faster pace and cause more environmental damage than predicted, according to a leading member of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

IPCC scientist Chris Field of Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution for Science points to recent studies showing that, in a business-as-usual world, higher temperatures could ignite tropical forests and melt the Arctic tundra, releasing billions of tons of greenhouse gas that could raise global temperatures even more—a vicious cycle that could spiral out of control by the end of the century.

Climate Change Likely To Be More Devastating Than Experts Predicted, Warns Top IPCC Scientist