Raymond Bradley, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Raymond Bradley, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

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Bradley says that many people have been lulled into a false sense of security with the Paris Agreement on greenhouse gas emissions. They think the 2-degree C target is a 'safe' limit for climate change. But that is a global average and many regions will warm more, and warm more rapidly, than the earth as a whole.

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