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Global warming already here & could be irreversible, UN panel says
2014-08-26 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Global warming is here, human-caused and probably already dangerous and its increasingly likely that the heating trend could be irreversible, a draft of a new international science report says. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Monday sent governments a final draft of its synthesis report, which combines three earlier, gigantic documents by the Nobel Prize-winning group. There is little in the report that wasnt in the other more-detailed versions, but the language...
West Antarctic glaciers in "irreversible" thaw, raising seas -study
2014-05-12 15:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Vast glaciers in West Antarctica seem to be locked in an irreversible thaw linked to global warming that may push up sea levels for centuries, scientists said on Monday. Six glaciers, eaten away from below by a warming of sea waters around the frozen continent, were flowing fast into the Amundsen Sea, according to the report based partly on satellite radar measurements from 1992 to 2011. Evidence shows "a large sector of the West Antarctic ice sheet has gone into a state of irreversible retreat",...
IPCC: Global Warming Impacts May Be Irreversible
2014-03-31 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The effects of climate change are "already occurring on all continents and across the oceans," yet the world is "ill-prepared for risks from a changing climate," concludes the latest assessment, issued today, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. "Increasing magnitudes of warming increase the likelihood of severe and pervasive impacts that may be surprising or irreversible," warns the report from the UN panel The assessment, titled "Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and...
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Irreversible damage done, IPCC report will say
2014-03-30 17:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yomiuru Shimbun: An international climate change panel currently meeting in Yokohama has agreed to state that coral reefs and Arctic sea ice have already suffered irreversible damage due to global warming in an upcoming report. The agreement came at a plenary session of Working Group II of the U.N. International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Friday. The IPCC is meeting in Yokohama to assess the impact of ongoing warming of the planet. There will be serious effects on the natural environment when global...
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NASA-funded study says irreversible collapse industrial civilization likely coming decades
2014-03-15 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A new study sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution. Noting that warnings of 'collapse' are often seen to be fringe or controversial, the study attempts to make sense of compelling historical data showing that "the process of rise-and-collapse is actually a recurrent cycle found throughout history." Cases...
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