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Global Warming Slowdown Offers Only Fleeting Relief

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Global Warming Slowdown Offers Only Fleeting Relief

by The Daily Eye Team May 3 2015, 10:22 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 41 secs

Scientists show that long-term temperature rise is the inevitable consequence of increasing greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels. The so-called hiatus in global warming will probably make no difference to the world in the long run, according to Australian scientists. Using computer models to take the planetary temperature in 2100, they found that one set of models incorporated the slowdown, but others did not. In the end, the difference was barely significant: less than 0.1?C. The hiatus is a measurable slowdown in the rate of increase in average global temperatures since the turn of the century. But since, under the notorious business-as-usual scenario, average planetary temperatures in 2100 will be a predicted 5?C higher than at the start of the Industrial Revolution around 200 years ago, the conclusion is that the slowdown is fleeting.

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Former Director Ideation at Zee Network, filmmaker and writer Vinta Nanda is the editor of The Daily Eye, and has recently directed a feature-length documentary on feminism in India titled #SHOUT. Vinta produced, directed and wrote television serials including Tara, Raahein, Raahat, Aur Phir Ek Din and Miilee. Her film, White Noise (2004), was screened at international film festivals. Her Edutainment work includes the serials Sheila and Kasbah, feature film Anant, and Documentary, The Distant Thunder and she led The Third Eye program from 2013 to 2018 in partnership with Hollywood Health and Society, Norman Lear Center, USC Annenberg, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which built platforms for interactions  between creative communities and specialists, experts, social scientists and activists to initiate the idea of conscious storytelling.

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