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Can the continuing slow increase in worldwide temperatures touch off abrupt climate upheavals?

Experts predict that higher worldwide temperatures will reduce rainfall in the Amazon region, which will cause widespread local drought.

Worldwide, temperatures are expected to be about fifth warmest on record, and all 10 of the warmest years globally have occurred since 1982.

All of this changed around 7000 bce, when worldwide temperatures rose and the great ice sheets of northern latitudes began their final retreat.

In fact, the warm spell that settled over much of the nation this fall may not be caused by global warming, the gradual but potentially calamitous rise in worldwide temperatures that most scientists attribute, at least in part, to fuel-burning human activities like making electricity and driving.

With worldwide temperatures on the rise, they and their researchers have noted major changes in their vineyards, including an increased sugar content in the grapes from which they make their wine, with a consequent decrease in acidity, and a harvest time that regularly comes two weeks earlier than it once did.

The most dramatic increases took place during the past 20 years.Dr Garamszegi's work, published in Global Change Biology, found that the house sparrow (Passer domesticus) showed a malaria prevalence that was less than 10% before 1990 when worldwide temperatures were cooler, but in recent years nearly 30% were infected.

This upward climb matched that of the temperatures in the French mountains--which have risen, more or less, by roughly 0.6°C in the 20th century--a much more dramatic increase than that of average worldwide temperatures.

Specifically, they ask, how much will worldwide temperatures rise if the level of CO2 becomes double that seen in the era before human activity began spewing the gas into the atmosphere?

Experts have long blamed a build-up of greenhouse gas emissions for raising worldwide temperatures and causing desertification, floods, droughts, heatwaves, more powerful storms and rising sea levels.

Urgenda and its plaintiffs hope that they can convince the courts to compel the Dutch government to reduce carbon emissions to 25 to 40percentt below 1990s levels by 2020, the purported bare minimum needed to avoid a two-degree Celsius rise in worldwide temperatures.