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A Changing But Uncertain Future

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A Changing But Uncertain Future

Two different state-of-the-art models project 21st Century climate change.

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• Both models show that warming will increase in the next century as greenhouse gas levels rise.

• Both show that warming will be greatest in the northern regions close to the pole.

• Both show that warming will tend to be greater over land than over the ocean.


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