Climate control.See "Climate Change, Coming Home," May/June 2007, p. 8 The latest report from the 120-nation Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “IPCC” redirects here. For other uses, see IPCC (disambiguation). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988 by two United Nations organizations, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment says cutting greenhouse gases by 50-85 percent of 2000 levels by 2050 would cost 3 percent or less of global GDP GDP (guanosine diphosphate): see guanine. . Even the most aggressive measures to control global warming global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. would only slow annual world economic growth by about 0.12 percent, well below current GDP growth of 2-5 percent per year, experts say. |
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