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Sterns makes dire statements

By February 21, 2009March 1st, 2013Emissions

(AP Press)Eminent British economist Lord Nicholas Sterns made some dire statements while visiting Antarctica with an team of key international climate leaders:  "… if negotiators falter, if emissions reductions are not made soon and deep, the severe climate shifts and sea-level rises projected by scientists would be "disastrous."  If we don’t deal with climate change decisively, "what we’re talking about then is extended world war."