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Greenland Ice Sheet during the 20th Century -- a missing link in IPCC's climate report
2015-12-17 06:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: For the first time, climate researchers from the Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, together with a national and an International team of researchers, have pubished in the scientific journal Nature their direct observations of the reduction and melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet during the latest 110 years. All previous estimations have been based on computer models, which although valuable do not provide the same level of insight as direct observations. In this paper,...
Einstein easier to understand than IPCC's climate-change language, study says
2015-10-13 17:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Unless you have a PhD or the equivalent, you likely cant understand what the worlds leading body on climate change is saying. In fact, the language used by the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is harder to comprehend than Albert Einsteins text, says a quirky study by a group of European academics. This study also warns that bad language is hampering global efforts on what has repeatedly been called the biggest threat facing mankind. The IPCC was...
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The Race for IPCC's Top Position Is Heating Up
2015-07-10 15:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: Austria and Montenegro have entered an energy economics expert into the contest to lead the UNs climate science panel. Nebojsa Nakicenovic, deputy head of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), goes up against four other candidates for the prestigious post. A relative outsider, Nakicenovic has three months to convince representatives of governments to vote for him. Nakicenovic is the ideal candidate for this highly influential position, said Austrian environment minister...
IPCCs most important report sets stage for Paris climate talks
2014-11-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: Members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) say they are confident their latest report, released in Copenhagen today, will help give politicians the impetus to commit to the deep emissions cuts needed to meet the worlds goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees. Jim Skea, a vice-chair of the IPCCs Working Group 3, which deals with measures to mitigate climate change, described the new Synthesis Report as the most important report the IPCC has ever produced, given that...
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A sustainable investment revolution must emerge from the IPCCs stark warning
2014-04-14 16:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC) latest report has implications for us all. But given it warns of the unsustainability of our approach to energy production and calls for an unprecedented trillion-dollar shift in investment, it is particularly significant for investors. Published yesterday, the comprehensive UN study says that without mitigation, scientists estimate that rising emissions mean global temperatures may increase by as much as 3.7C to 4.8C from pre-industrial times...
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