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Climate change is 'here and now', says Cambridge Zero Director - Channel 4 News
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We spoke to Professor Emily Shuckburgh, a climate scientist and director of Cambridge Zero – Cambridge University’s research unit which aims to offer responses to the climate crisis.
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State of Play
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.