Major report warns of drastically hotter planet

By Tony Arup
Updated November 19 2012 - 8:19pm, first published 8:18pm

The World Bank has warned the planet is on track to warm by four degrees Celsius this century - causing increasingly extreme heat waves, lower crop yields and rising sea levels - unless significant action is taken to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

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