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Fossil fuels should be phased out by 2100 IPCC
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 2nd, 2014
BBC: The unrestricted use of fossil fuels should be phased out by 2100 if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change, a UN-backed expert panel says.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says in a stark report that most of the world's electricity can - and must - be produced from low-carbon sources by 2050.
If not, the world faces "severe, pervasive and irreversible" damage.
The UN said inaction would cost "much more" than taking the necessary action.
The IPCC's Synthesis Report...
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UN sees irreversible damage to planet fossil fuels
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 2nd, 2014
Bloomberg: Humans are causing irreversible damage to the planet from burning fossil fuels, the biggest ever study of the available science concluded in a report designed to spur the fight against climate change. There’s a high risk of widespread harm from rising global temperatures, including floods, drought, extinction of species and ocean acidification, if the trend for increasing carbon emissions continues, a panel convened by a United Nations body said today in Copenhagen. Humans can avoid the worst if...
Scientists sound the alarm in climate change report
Posted by LA Times: Neela Banerjee on November 2nd, 2014
LA Times: Climate change driven by the burning of fossil fuels is already affecting life on every continent and in the oceans, and the window is closing rapidly for governments to avert the worst damage expected to occur later this century, scientists warned in one of the loudest alarms yet sounded by the international scientific community.
The report, to be issued Sunday, arrives as international negotiators prepare to meet in Lima, Peru, in December to establish parameters for an eventual agreement on...
UN climate report offers stark warnings, hope
Posted by Associated Press: Karl Ritter on November 2nd, 2014
Associated Press: Climate change is happening, it's almost entirely man's fault and limiting its impacts may require reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero this century, the U.N.'s panel on climate science said Sunday.
The fourth and final volume of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's giant climate assessment offered no surprises, nor was it expected to since it combined the findings of three reports released in the past 13 months.
But it underlined the scope of the climate challenge in stark...
Clock ticking on climate change prevention
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 2nd, 2014
Scientific American: Climate change is real. Carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels and clearing forests, among other human activities, is to blame. And more and more of that global warming pollution is being dumped in the atmosphere each year. So says the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's new synthesis report released on November 2. The synthesis reduces thousands of pages of scientific knowledge to their essence. That essence, however, has hardly changed since the last synthesis report...
UN warns opportunity to stop climate change fading fast
Posted by Age: Nick Miller on November 2nd, 2014
Age: After a rocky, sometimes controversial six years, climate experts have settled on their message to the world's governments: climate change can and must be stopped but the window of opportunity is closing fast. In Copenhagen on Sunday, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) produced its final report before next year's summit in Paris where a new global agreement on climate is due to be hammered out. The IPCC's fifth "synthesis report" pulls together the latest climate...
India: Disasters in the making
Posted by Hindu: None Given on November 2nd, 2014
Hindu: On September 6, when the floodwaters first started appearing in the Rambagh neighbourhood of Srinagar, Shakeel Ahmad and a dozen of his neighbours stood under a ceaseless downpour, shouting at each other for sandbags. In surprise, they stared at the small cement drain that meandered through their neighbourhood. Torrents of waters came rushing through it, inches away from overflowing its small embankments and pouring into their low-lying houses on both sides. The drain, they rued, would be the one...
Effects climate change ‘irreversible,’ UN panel warns in report
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 2nd, 2014
Washington Post: The Earth is locked on an “irreversible” course of climatic disruption from the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and the impacts will only worsen unless nations agree to dramatic cuts in pollution, an international panel of climate scientists warned Sunday.
The planet faces a future of extreme weather, rising sea levels and melting polar ice from soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases, the U.N. panel said. Only an unprecedented global effort to slash emissions within a...
U.N panel warns of dire effects lack of action over global warming
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 2nd, 2014
New York Times: The gathering risks of climate change are so profound they could stall or even reverse generations of progress against poverty and hunger if greenhouse gas emissions continue at a runaway pace, according to a major new United Nations report.
Despite rising efforts in many countries to tackle the problem, the overall global situation is growing more acute as developing countries join the West in burning huge amounts of fossil fuels, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said here on Sunday....
IPCC reaches finish line releases major climate change synthesis report
Posted by Science: None Given on November 2nd, 2014
Science: Climate change is taking hold and will bring worrying impacts – but there is still time to limit the damage. That, in a nutshell, is the message delivered by a new report that synthesizes the findings of three massive studies issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) over the past year. The Synthesis Report, released today at a meeting in Copenhagen, caps work on the fifth assessment of climate science and mitigation that the IPCC has completed since 1990.
The report demonstrates...