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| Ecologists Share a Glimpse of Our Grim Future from Global Warming
The UN has recently published a troubling report on global warming suggesting that the temperature rise at the North Pole will be greater than anticipated in the coming years and that soon climate change could become irreversible, threatening humanity with massive disasters. Sputnik has discussed the report with two prominent ecologists. A recent UN report on global warming has shown that our planet could soon reach a "tipping point", when rising temperatures will melt the permafrost layers in the Arctic and release enormous amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas "between 25 and 100 times as powerful as carbon dioxide", into the atmosphere, drastically increasing the rate of global warming. The consequences of such irreversible heating of our planet could range from massive floods and rising sea levels to social upheavals due to famine, one of the academics interviewed by Sputnik suggested. Grave Danger… Rupert Read, chair of the Green House think-tank and a philosophy academic at the