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Climate change will damage Australia's coastal infrastructure, says IPCC
2014-03-31 02:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australia is set to suffer a loss of native species, significant damage to coastal infrastructure and a profoundly altered Great Barrier Reef due to climate change, an exhaustive UN report has found. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, delivered to the worlds governments in Japan on Monday, states there is significant change in community composition and structure of coral reefs and montane ecosystems and risk of loss of some native species in Australia as a result of warming...
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IPCC report: global warming increase heatwaves, flooding & conflict
2014-03-31 02:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Flooding, storm surges, droughts and heatwaves are among the key risks of global warming that will pose the greatest threat to humans in the future, according to the most authoritative report to date on the impact of climate change. Violent conflicts and food shortages were also forecast to increase over coming decades due to rising temperatures, while a growing number of animal and marine species will face increased risk of extinction. The warnings were published on Monday in the Intergovernmental...
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Climate change and health: IPCC reports emerging risks, emerging consensus
2014-03-30 22:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC) Impacts volume of the Fifth Assessment Report will be released today. Here, three contributors to the health chapter explain the ideas and evidence behind the report. The consequences of human-driven global climate change as this century progresses will be wide-ranging. Yet public discussion has focused narrowly on a largely spurious debate about the basic science and on the risks to property, iconic species and ecosystems, jobs, the GDP and...
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IPCC report: how humans are changing the climate
2014-03-30 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Advocate: Welcome to our live blog on the release of the second report of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report. The much-anticipated - and leaked - report is the work of a small army of researchers and reviewers. In fact, there are some 309 coordinating lead authors, lead authors and review editors, without counting the hundreds of contributing editors and expert reviewers. The Working Group II report has been produced by 309 coordinating lead authors, lead authors and review editors, who in turn enlisted...
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IPCC Says Climate Change is Here, World Needs to Adapt
2014-03-30 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The overall warming of the planet has had a clear impact on Earth's natural systems and human society and will pose increased -- and potentially disastrous -- risks in the future if the world does not make a more concerted effort to adapt and try to prevent the worst possible outcomes. That's the continued message from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations-established body made up of hundreds of scientists who review and summarize the state of climate science and...
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