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Global warming twice as fast in Europe than rest of world, study says
The report from the World Meteorological Agency comes after Europe sees its hottest summer in recorded history and days before the COP27 climate change summit.
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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.