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A peasant in Burkina Faso stands near the grass he planted to help stop the advance of the Sahara desert, November 2009. Scientists on Wednesday unveiled a Dow Jones-style "climate-change index" aimed at showing in user-friendly form the perils posed by man-made global warming.

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