In President Obama’s White House, it’s good to see global warming and climate change high on the agenda. This video clip makes interesting watching.

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Here’s an interesting Global Warming 101

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This is what US Global Warming Guru has to say:

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Global warming may be affecting the size of sheep in Scotland, scientists have found. Over twenty-five years, they studied the Soay sheep on Hirta, an island in the Outer Hebrides, off Scotland.

They found that the sheep had shrunk by about 2cm (0.8 inches) and 81g (2.9oz) each year. This amounted to five per cent of their body mass.

The sheep were completely unattended and it’s thought that the smallest lambs would usually die in the cold weather of early spring. However, as spring is getting warmer, more of these lambs survive. Their ‘small’ genes then get passed to the next generation of sheep.

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The British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, was enthusiastic about the outcome of the G8 summit for global warming. At the summit he said:

“For the first time the G8 has agreed what I believe are vital decisions that take us on the road to Copenhagen and change the way we look at energy policy in the future.

We have agreed for the first time that average global temperatures must rise by no more than 2C. That is a historic agreement.

“We have agreed as G8 that we want to cut our emissions by 80% by 2050 and we believe that this will allow the world to reduce its emissions by 50%.”

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Fine words on global warming and climate change were not in short supply. Detailed agreements were. The G8 developed countries agreed to cut their emissions by 80% by 2050 and said worldwide emissions should fall 50% by the same date.

They also agreed to try to limit global warming to just 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial levels. Interestingly, in the communique announcing the targets, the application of an “exit strategy” – as sought by Germany – until recovery is assured was put off. But these were only targets with no detailed obligations.

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