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U.N panel warns of dire effects lack of action over global warming
2014-11-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
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....
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Effects climate change irreversible, UN panel warns in report
2014-11-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
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...
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U.N. Panel Issues Climate Warning
2014-11-02 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The U.N.'s climate science panel has finished its report on global warming. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks to Michael Oppenheimer about the conclusion that humans are altering the Earth's climate.
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Climate panel IPCC: Carbon levels highest in 800,000 years
2014-11-02 03:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: Levels of three key greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and nitrous oxide - are the highest in at least 800,000 years, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC) said Sunday in the final chapter of a landmark report. From 1880-2012, the global average surface temperature rose by 0.85 degrees Celsius (1.5 degrees Fahrenheit), while the global mean sea level rose by 19 centimetres (7.6 inches) from 1901-2010, it said.
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United Nations panel adopts landmark climate report
2014-11-01 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The United Nations` expert panel on climate science on Saturday finished a report on global warming that the UN`s environment agency said offers "conclusive evidence" that humans are altering the Earth`s climate system. The document, which combines the findings of three earlier reports, was adopted after all-night talks that went on until 5 am Saturday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The scientists and government representatives on the panel, who jointly approved the document...
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