Climate change: IPCC issues stark warning over global warming

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Call to 'stop dithering about fossil fuel cuts' as expert panel warns entire globe is affected

Scientists will this week issue their starkest warning yet about the mounting dangers of global warming. In a report to be handed to political leaders in Stockholm on Monday, they will say that the burning...

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