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December 5, 2009
As a photographer in South Australia I experience the effects of rising temperatures in terms of a hotter and drier climate and no water flowing down the Murray River.
The Hadley Center has a useful graph about climate change which I reproduce here:
In the context of ClimateGate I would like to say that the 2007 IPCC Assessment, which is the most comprehensive and respected analysis of climate change to date, states clearly that without substantial global reductions of greenhouse gas emissions we can likely expect a world of increasing droughts, floods and species loss, of rising seas and displaced human populations.
However, even since the 2007 IPCC Assessment the evidence for dangerous, long-term and potentially irreversible climate change has strengthened. The scientific evidence which underpins calls for action at Copenhagen is very strong.
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