[Ost-news] Greenhouse gas emissions hit danger mark

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Greenhouse gas emissions hit danger mark  
Tue Oct 9, 2007 9:05am EDT  
By Michael Perry

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The global economic boom has accelerated greenhouse gas emissions to a dangerous threshold not expected for a decade and could potentially cause irreversible climate change, said one of Australia's leading scientists.

Tim Flannery, a world recognized climate change scientist and Australian of the Year in 2007, said a U.N. international climate change report due in November will show that greenhouse gases have already reached a dangerous level.

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