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Comparing apples with oranges

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The drivers and impacts of climate change extend beyond greenhouse gas emissions and rising temperature, especially when deforestation enters the picture. In deciding how best to mitigate, we may need to favour direct calculations of cost over current means of measuring climate change.

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  1. Richard Betts is Head of Climate Impacts at the Met Office Hadley Centre, Fitzroy Road, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK. richard.betts@metoffice.gov.uk,

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