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UN panel warns of 'severe and irreversible' effects of climate change
2014-11-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KQED: On Sunday, the United Nations released one of its bluntest and bleakest reports to date on the dangers of global warming. The study from The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that the world must cut nearly all greenhouse gas emissions by 2100 in order to head off the worst effects of climate change. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged world leaders to act, saying that the science is unambiguous. We speak with three authors of the report about future impacts of climate change...
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U.N. Report Warns Of 'Irreversible' Damage To Earth's Climate
2014-11-03 11:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: In Copenhagen on Sunday, scientists gathered to issue their latest assessment of the world's climate. Their report is considered the most comprehensive overview of the state of climate science.
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Climate change will soon be irreversible
2014-11-03 03:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Examiner: The world faces a "very high risk of severe, widespread and irreversible" impacts from climate change without action to cut emissions, a major international report has warned. Experts warned there was little time before the window of opportunity to limit temperature rises to below dangerous levels closed, and that delaying action would greatly increase the costs. The warning came as the United Nations climate body published the final report of its latest assessment on the science of climate...
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UN Panel Reaffirms That Climate Change Is Irreversible
2014-11-02 21:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Gizmodo: The U.N. panel charged with a five-year mission to assess global climate change and provide a necessary course of action in order to stem its negative effects finally released a Synthesis Report detailing their findings in stark black-and-white. The news was all pretty doom and gloom. "Human influence on the climate system is clear," says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), "recent climate changes have had widespread impacts on human and natural systems." By 2100, IPCC has "high...
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Invest now or face irreversible effects climate change, U.N. panel warns
2014-11-02 21:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: The cost of fighting climate change will only climb if industrialized nations don`t take steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the United Nations` panel on the matter warned Sunday in its wrap-up report. In its "synthesis report," the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that the hundreds of authors involved in the study were even more certain than before that the planet is warming and humans are the cause. "If left unchecked, climate change will increase the likelihood of severe,...
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