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IPCC Begins Weeklong Summit Preparing Worlds Most Important Climate Change Report
2013-09-23 18:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release the first of its fifth assessment reports on Sept. 27, representing the most comprehensive global overview to date of the science behind climate change. Ahead of its release, the report will be discussed this week by representatives from 195 governments in Stockholm, Sweden, but leaked drafts have revealed it is expected to show scientists are more certain than ever--95 percent certain--that human activities, such a burning fossil...
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Five key questions facing the IPCC
2013-09-23 03:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Our environment correspondent Matt McGrath looks at five critical questions now facing the Nobel prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as it prepares to present its latest report in Stockholm later this week. The IPCC - weren't they the ones who said the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035? How can we trust what they say this time? The weight given to the reports of the IPCC is a measure of the global scale of scientific involvement with the panel. Divided...
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Climate change: IPCC cites global temperature rise over last century
2013-09-21 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Observer: Global surface temperatures have risen by almost a degree in the last century. Sea levels have risen, while snow and ice cover has dropped significantly. Coral reefs are being destroyed and weather patterns are becoming wilder and less predictable. And the major cause of this climatic mayhem is now clear. It is the work of humans, who are burning ever increasing amounts of fossil fuel and have raised carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere by 40% in the past 250 years. That is the stark conclusion...
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Climate change: IPCC issues stark warning over global warming
2013-09-21 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Scientists will this week issue their starkest warning yet about the mounting dangers of global warming. In a report to be handed to political leaders in Stockholm on Monday, they will say that the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation have now led to a warming of the entire globe, including land surfaces, oceans and the atmosphere. Extreme weather events, including heatwaves and storms, have increased in many regions while ice sheets are dwindling at an alarming rate. In addition, sea levels...
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The Best of the IPCC Climate Report Leaks
2013-09-20 14:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: With 800 volunteer reviewers, the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) the international body that assesses the state of the science on climate change was bound to leak. The first full version of the draft report was posted online in December 2012 by a climate change skeptic who was part of the volunteer review army. Now, as the report's Sept. 27 release date nears, final drafts are circulating among journalists. This latest version of the IPCC's summary of...
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