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... Citizens and governments can choose among several options (or a mixture of those options) in response to this information: they can change their pattern of energy production and usage in order to limit emissions of greenhouse gases and hence the magnitude of climate changes; they can wait for changes to occur and accept the losses, damage and suffering that arise; they can adapt to actual and expected changes as much as possible; or they can seek as yet unproven ‘geoengineering' solutions to counteract some of the climate changes that would otherwise occur.
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  • climate changes
  • greenhouse gas
  • global scale
  • expected changes


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