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An awful lot of people will die, but I don&#8217;t see the species dying out,&quot; he told a news conference. &quot;A hot earth couldn&#8217;t support much over 500 million.&quot;  <\/div>\n<div>\n&quot;If climate change goes on course &#8230; I can&#8217;t see China  being able to produce enough food by the middle of the century to support its people. They will have to move somewhere &hellip;,&quot; he said. <\/div>\n<div>\nSee<a href=\"https:\/\/planetark.org\/dailynewsstory.cfm\/newsid\/39198\/story.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> full story<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Earth has a fever that could boost temperatures by 8 degrees Celsius making large parts of the surface uninhabitable and threatening billions of peoples&#8217;lives, a controversial climate scientist said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-25588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) 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