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China’s top climatologist speaks

SEP 28, 2009
Physics Today
guardian.co.uk : A 2°C rise in global temperatures will not necessarily result in the calamity predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), China’s most senior climatologist has told the Guardian .Despite growing evidence that storms in China are getting fiercer, droughts longer, and typhoons more deadly, Xiao Ziniu , the director general of the Beijing Climate Center , said it was too early to determine the level of risk posed by global warming.
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