This is the Guardian.

Today, the Guardian's

today, the Guardian's spoken to almost 400 climate researchers about their expectations for the future.

Here's what they told us. Attention, comrades. This spring, the world feels different now. A dystopian masterpiece.

This is big brother. Becomes a reality. Time to finally do this.

Winston, I'm still.

George Orwell's 1984,

starring Andrew Garfield, Cynthia Arrivo, Andrew Scott, and Tom Hardy.

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Co. UK for terms. I woke up on that morning that your report came out and heard them discussing it on the today program.

Did you hear that?

I did hear that so one of the presenters read out some details around the story which of course is pretty

somber stuff extremely alarming.

The Guardian has conducted a poll of hundreds of climate experts who say they expect

global temperatures to rise by at least two and a half Celsius this century. Many predict what the paper describes as a semi-dystopian

era including famines, conflicts, floods, wildfires and storms of an intensity and frequency far beyond what's been seen before.

I could not feel greater despair over the future, one scientist is quoted as saying.

But then it was quite disturbing, frankly, to hear them then

start laughing about how gloomy it was and how they needed to cheer people up.

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