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The paper, based on data compiled by the “As we have seen this year with tragic effect

UNʼs World Meteorological Organization, in the Bahamas and Mozambique, sea level
found that humans have already warmed rise , decline in Antarctic and Greenland ice

the planet to an average of 1.1 degrees sheets and intense tropical storms have led

Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures t o h u m a n i t a r i a n a n d e c o n o m i c

and that the loss of the Antarctic ice sheet is catastrophes.”

speeding up.

“Climate change causes and impacts are

increasing rather than slowing down,”

WMO chief and UN climate science adviser
Petteri Taalas told the Times.

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