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Invest now or face ‘irreversible’ effects climate change, U.N. panel warns
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 2nd, 2014
CNN: The cost of fighting climate change will only climb if industrialized nations don`t take steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the United Nations` panel on the matter warned Sunday in its wrap-up report.
In its "synthesis report," the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that the hundreds of authors involved in the study were even more certain than before that the planet is warming and humans are the cause.
"If left unchecked, climate change will increase the likelihood of severe,...
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UN Climate Report Rings Alarm, Offers Guidance
Posted by Climate Central: John Upton on November 2nd, 2014
Climate Central: The most sophisticated, comprehensive and succinct scientific account of the accelerating impacts of human activity on the world around us, from warming and rising oceans to the growing toll of heat stroke, was published Sunday by a United Nations panel. The picture that emerged from the 116-page synthesis of three blockbuster climate change reports was alarming. "The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, and sea level has risen,' it reminds us, warning that...
End fossil fuels by 2100 – the dramatic ‘final warning’ on climate change
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 2nd, 2014
Independent: Time is running out if the world wants to avoid potentially catastrophic climate change, according to the most definitive report to date by the UN body charged with formulating expert advice for governments around the globe.
In what amounts to a “final warning” about the dangers of not doing enough to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said that it is technically and economically possible to still keep within the target of no more than a 2C...
IPCC stern on climate change – but still underestimates the situation
Posted by Guardian: Bill McKibben on November 2nd, 2014
Guardian: At this point, the scientists who run the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change must feel like it’s time to trade their satellites, their carefully calibrated thermometers and spectrometers, their finely tuned computer models – all of them for a thesaurus. Surely, somewhere, there must be words that will prompt the world’s leaders to act.
This week, with the release of their new synthesis report, they are trying the words “severe, widespread, and irreversible” to describe the effects of climate...
‘Severe’ climate change predicted
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 2nd, 2014
Press Association: The world faces "severe, widespread and irreversible" impacts of climate change without urgent action to cut emissions, a major international report has warned.
While there are solutions to climate change, experts warned there was little time before the window of opportunity to limit dangerous temperature rises closed, and that delaying action would greatly increase costs.
Significant and swift cuts to greenhouse gases are needed, with the phasing out fossil fuelled power plants without technology...
All talk and little action on climate change
Posted by Al Jazeera: None Given on November 2nd, 2014
Al Jazeera: Interpreting the mire of UN climate-speak, I’d say the message boils down to this: attain near zero emissions by 2100 or billions of our descendants not yet born will be in big trouble. That means we have to start now, tripling or even quadrupling our use of renewable energy so it represents 80% of energy sources by 2050.
This latest report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a final précis of the most comprehensive assessment on climate change to date, conducted...
UN climate change report: time running out to prevent ‘dangerous, irreversible’ impacts
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 2nd, 2014
Telegraph: Time is running out to prevent "irreversible and dangerous impacts" of climate change, a major UN report has warned. The world is on course to experience "severe and pervasive' effects of global warming unless it urgently cuts its greenhouse gas emissions. Global emissions must fall by at least 40 per cent by 2050 and be cut to zero by the end of the century, the report from the UN's Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change warns. The longer government delay action on climate change, the more expensive...
IPCC’s ‘most important report’ sets stage for Paris climate talks
Posted by Conversation: None Given on November 2nd, 2014
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 world’s goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees.
Jim Skea, a vice-chair of the IPCC’s 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...
Planet headed toward ‘irreversible’ climate damage, UN warns
Posted by Hill: Laura Barron-Lopez on November 2nd, 2014
Hill: The globe is heading toward “severe, pervasive, and irreversible” climate change impacts if left “unchecked,” according to a new United Nations report.
In its most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken, the U.N.’s synthesis report released Sunday, finds that the evidence behind human influence on climate change is overwhelming and undeniable, as greenhouse gas emissions are the “highest in history.”
The report, which over 800 scientists from 80 countries wrote, additionally drawing from 3,000...
IPCC keen to avoid ghost of ‘Hopenhagen’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 2nd, 2014
BBC: IPCC scientists and government officials meeting here in Copenhagen are likely to work late into the night to deal with some very heavy questions.
And it won't just be queries about the "severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts" of climate change.
In those quiet corners they will huddle to answer philosophical challenges such as "How long is ever?" - posed by the US in a response to one part of the Synthesis draft report.
One or two are likely to look over their shoulders this chilly Halloween,...