While 40-60 percent of potential global warming is effectively locked-in, CEPR says, as much as half the rest could be cut through reducing work hours.

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Evidence continues to mount that recent estimates of sea level rise from global warming were wrong, and that the potential inundation to come may be much worse than previously contemplated, possibly exceeding an average of 3 feet worldwide.

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Environmentalists like the idea because they believe it has the potential to reduce total energy consumption and thus help to curb carbon emissions and stop global warming.

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