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Could a doubling of Co2 trigger 8° of warming?
Long stories short, here’s the top six news items of note in climate news for Aotearoa this week, and a discussion above between Bernard Hickey and The Kākā’s climate correspondent Cathrine Dyer:
* A seventh planetary boundary, for ocean acidification will soon be breached, and may have already done so, according to a new report from The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).
* A new study published in Science from 485 million years of data suggests a doubling of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere could increase global mean surface temperatures (GMST) by 8˚C in the very long…
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