FILE PHOTO: Protestors of environmental organisation Greenpeace demonstrate against CO2 emissions in front of the cooling towers at the 'Staudinger' coal power plant of German E.ON energy company in Grosskrotzenburg, 30km (18 miles) south of Frankfurt,November 17, 2008. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hopes that the rise in average global temperatures by 2100 might be capped below 2.5C can be all but ruled out if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, new research reassessing the atmosphere's sensitivity to CO2 suggests.
The study, under the Geneva-based World Climate Research Program, offers the first clear progress in decades toward narrowing the range of temperature rise caused by doubling of carbon dioxide levels since pre-industrial times.
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