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‘Little time left to act on climate’
Posted by Age: Nick Miller on November 3rd, 2014
Age: After this weekend's climate conference in Copenhagen, Fairfax Media sat down with three of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change'sleading experts -- two of them Australian - to ask them about the latest science, and the options and challenges facing the world.
The ocean expert:"You can look at sea levels and say 'gee, this is a depressing story'. But you can also say there's an opportunity to change it."
Quiet-voiced, bushy-bearded Dr John Church, who works in Tasmania for the CSIRO,...
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...