Disastrous climate ‘switch’ threatens

GLOBAL warming could be returning the world to the way it was four million years ago — when sea levels were 80ft higher than they are today, scientists have warned.

The frightening forecast suggests that a climatic “switch” may soon be thrown, resulting in a seismic geothermal shift.

If the prediction is correct, later generations could find themselves living in a climate similar to that of the early Pliocene epoch, four to five million years ago.