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Without cutting emissions, much of the planet is headed for "complete deglaciation"
Earth’s glaciers could be at least partially saved if greenhouse gas emissions and resulting global warming were limited to the Paris Agreement’s most ambitious goals, a new study finds.
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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.