CO2 climate sensitivity 'overestimated' (BBC) {somewhat. maybe.}

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By Jennifer Carpenter
Science reporter, BBC News

Global temperatures could be less sensitive to changing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels than previously thought, a study suggests.

The researchers said people should still expect to see "drastic changes" in climate worldwide, but that the risk was a little less imminent.

The results are published in Science.
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The authors stress the results do not mean threat from human-induced climate change should be treated any less seriously, explained palaeoclimatologist Antoni Rosell-Mele from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, who is a member of the team that came up with the new estimates.
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Climatologist Andrey Ganopolski, from Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany, went further and said that he would not make such a strong conclusion based on this data.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15858603




"Insensitive" throughout this article should be replaced by "somewhat less sensitive".