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| [00:00.00] | A new study on climate change says |
| [00:02.22] | catastrophic 4 degree rise in global temperature |
| [00:05.12] | is increasingly likely to occur within many people's lifetimes. |
| [00:08.74] | The studies have been compiled |
| [00:10.46] | by one of the world's leading research bodies |
| [00:12.75] | monitoring climate change, |
| [00:14.18] | the Hadley Centre in Britain. |
| [00:15.76] | Paul Harper reports. |
| [00:17.08] | This latest prediction from the Hadley Centre |
| [00:19.68] | brings the prospect of devastating change much closer. |
| [00:22.78] | He challenges the assumption |
| [00:25.02] | that severe warming is a threat only for future generations. |
| [00:28.69] | A four degree average temperature rise by the 2050s |
| [00:33.01] | would bring increases of 10 degrees or more in some areas |
| [00:36.41] | such as the Arctic and Africa. |
| [00:38.20] | It could mean a sharp decline in rainfall in some areas, |
| [00:41.66] | flooding in others and extinction |
| [00:44.31] | of about half of all the world's animal and plant species. |
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