I feel our news media has a solemn duty to properly keep these things in the public eye, so that people begin to understand the problem fully enough to change their behavours.

For example, many of the things we can do about global warming are, as simple as, turning out a light or offsetting our car usage; and if we add enough of them up, we can easily bring the world carbon emissions below that much talked about and little done 20% mark.

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Do we really want this to be our future?

Of course not, nor do we want the ice to melt at the Poles.

"When you plant trees to slow down global warming, you have to be careful where you do it. I think our study shows clearly the climate benefits are maximised if you plant them in the tropics," Dr Bala told BBC News.

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