Early models of global warming focused on the likelihood that the earth’s temperature would grow more than 2 degrees Celsius, or stop right about there. Well, nine of 11 experts, who were among authors of the final summary by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 global warming report, think 2C is on the low side. In fact, 10 of 11 think we have a less than one-in-three chance of keeping temperatures below that. And, a slim majority thinks we’ll break the global records of 1998 by 2015; almost all said by 2020.
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