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The steady increase in atmospheric GHGs is driving ever increasing extreme weather events. According to the NGO Germanwatch , from 1994 to 2013, there were more than 15,000 extreme weather events that caused 2.2 As this year comes to an end rising emissions are exhausting our carbon budgets. In the U.S.
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