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Fix for global warming not so painful?

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Greenhouse gas emissions could be dramatically cut and the worst effects of climate change avoided if policy makers and people act quickly and give up a little over a tenth of a percent of economic growth worldwide each year through 2030, a United Nations climate change panel reported Friday. Using existing technology - solar and hydroelectric power, biofuels, more efficient cars and factories, better building insulation - the world could hold temperature increases to around 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, low enough to avoid potentially disastrous droughts, severe storms and sea level rise, the report said.

Fix for global warming not so painful?
xcel, May 4, 2007
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