Researchers are reporting, through the dry-sounding "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" in the US that the effects of climate change due to increased carbon in the atmosphere and oceans will be with us for at least a thousand years. Even if we stopped producing any carbon tomorrow, the effects of carbon we have ALREADY released will see out the millenium.
The current level of 385ppm (parts per million) of CO2 in the atmosphere is picked to "inevitably" rise to 450ppm and whether or not it goes beyond that level depends on what action is taken now to reduce CO2 emissions.
The outlook isn't good.
This story has really grown legs over the past 12 hours and we might even see it in our own media here in New Zealand.
But it is actually about you Prime Minister
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