Exeter Conference - Risks From Warming Even Worse Than Thought - BBC

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"The risks from global warming are more serious than previously thought, a major climate conference has concluded. In its final report, the committee which organised the UK Met Office meeting said the impacts of climate change were already being felt.

The communiqué held back from declaring precisely what was meant by a "dangerous" level of warming. But, "it has given us a clearer picture of what is expected," said Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett. The conference in Exeter, in southwest England, was called "Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change".

It was announced by Prime Minister Tony Blair, and was intended to give a scientific context to Britain's efforts to make the climate issue a central feature of its Group of Eight (G8) and EU Presidencies this year.


Although the committee refrained from defining "dangerous", it did emphasise the scale and nature of the warming threat it said was already apparent. "The impacts of climate change are already being observed," the communiqué said. "Ecosystems are already showing the effects of climate change. Changes to polar ice and glaciers and rainfall regimes have already occurred."

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