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White House Rejects Limit On Warming

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 19, 2007

WASHINGTON - The president's top science adviser said Thursday that there is no solid scientific evidence that the widely cited goal of limiting future global temperature increases to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels is necessary to avert climate change. The assertion runs counter to that of many scientists as well as the Noble-prize winning U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
John Marburger III, who directs the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, said at a news conference that the target of preventing Earth from warming more than 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, 'is going to be a very difficult one to achieve and is not actually linked to regional events that affect people's lives.'

A wide number of scientists, as well as European leaders and many U.S. lawmakers, have endorsed the goal of limiting global temperature rise to that level.

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