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02/15/2009: "Industrial development of India and China is sufficient to kill all life on Earth this century"

The severity of global warming over the next century will be much worse than previously believed, a leading climate scientist has warned.

Professor Chris Field, an author of a 2007 landmark report on climate change, said future temperatures "will be beyond anything" predicted.

Prof Field said the 2007 report, which predicted temperature rises between 1.1C and 6.4C over the next century, seriously underestimated the scale of the problem.

He said the increases in carbon dioxide have been caused, principally, by the burning of coal for electric power in India and China.

[ The only reason such nations have had this industrial expansion is because the west has allowed it. If it had been kept in the west, we could manage it and improve it so that it would not threaten the planet. ]


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7890988.stm