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Draft IPCC Report Suggests 15-Year Window for Affordable Climate Action
2014-04-07 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Government envoys and scientists gathered under the UN banner in Berlin Monday to hammer out a list of options for curbing carbon emissions driving dangerous climate change. Fresh from issuing its starkest-ever warning about the impacts of global warming on Earth's weather system, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will meet until Friday to vet the choices meant to inform policymakers. A draft of the document, seen by AFP, suggests there is a 15-year window for affordable...
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New UN climate report: Livability deteriorating now; ending carbon use only answer
2014-04-01 11:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
America Blog: Theres a new report out from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and its apparently a rough ride. The IPCC has three working groups of scientists. Working Group 1 (WG1) deals with the physical basis of climate science the physics, the mechanics of climate change. The latest Assessment Report (AR5) is being released over the next year, and the WG1 AR5 Summary for Policymakers (the executive summary) was released late last year. We covered that briefly...
UN Report: Climate Change Is Here Now
2014-03-31 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC: It's not the future: It's here now. Lower Manhattan underwater from rising seas during hurricane Sandy; wildfires -- many more of them like the one in Colorado; droughts in the American West; and wicked hurricanes and typhoons like Haiyan, the one in the Philippines last year: All these, according to a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- a U.N. panel created to give governments reliable information on climate change -- are signs of the impact of climate change. "We...
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U.N. climate report offers lots bummer news plus a few dollops of encouragement
2014-03-31 17:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Climate change has broken down the floodgates, pervading every corner of the globe and affecting every inhabitant. That was perhaps the clearest message from the newest report of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - the latest in a conga line of warnings about the need to radically and immediately reduce our use of fossil fuels. Published Sunday, it`s the second installment of the IPCC`s fifth climate report. The first installment was released last September; the third comes out...
UN Scientific Panel Releases Report Sounding Alarm On Climate Change Dangers
2014-03-31 17:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: If the world doesn't cut pollution of heat-trapping gases, the already noticeable harms of global warming could spiral "out of control," the head of a United Nations scientific panel warned Monday. And he's not alone. The Obama White House says it is taking this new report as a call for action, with Secretary of State John Kerry saying "the costs of inaction are catastrophic." Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that issued the 32-volume, 2,610-page...
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