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"The climate crisis is not a warning. It's happening. I urge world leaders to ACT now," tweeted the head of the World Health Organisation Tedros Ghebreyesus. His words echo a warning from the World Meteorological Organisation that the world could possibly warm up by more than 1.5C before 2027.Earth will become an"inferno" if these heatwaves don't spur on governments to tackle global warming, according to climate scientist Dr Akshay Deoras of the University of Reading.
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