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World told to stand up to fossil fuels ahead of IPCC climate change report
2014-03-30 11:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The campaign group Friends of the Earth has said the world must stand up to the fossil fuels industry ahead of the launch of a new major report on climate science, released on Monday. A draft of the second report in a series of three from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was leaked to Reuters this week. It suggests, among other things, that by endorsing carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, the world could remove the equivalent of Chinas carbon emissions from the...
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IPCC Report: Climate Risks Grow As Earths Temperature Rises
2014-03-28 16:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Fast-rising sea levels, declining fisheries, more air pollution and an ice-free Arctic summer are projected by scientists and government representatives from around the world meeting now in Yokohama to finalize the latest assessment of climate change impacts on human and natural systems. This report by Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, covers options for adaptation, and the interactions among climate changes, other stresses on societies and opportunities...
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IPCC report: climate change felt 'on all continents & across the oceans'
2014-03-28 13:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change has already left its mark "on all continents and across the oceans", damaging food crops, spreading disease, and melting glaciers, according to the leaked text of a blockbuster UN climate science report due out on Monday. Government officials and scientists are gathered in Yokohama this week to wrangle over every line of a summary of the report before the final wording is released on Monday the first update in seven years. Nearly 500 people must sign off on the exact wording of...
Governments reject IPCC economist 'meaningless' climate costs estimate
2014-03-28 10:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Britain has dismissed as "completely meaningless" a key economic finding cited in part of the draft United Nations climate report from a dissenting author who went public on Thursday with criticisms of the report, the Guardian has learned. Scientists and government officials are gathered this week in Yokohama, Japan, to agree on the exact wording of a final summary of the UN report seen as the authoritative account of climate change science before its release on Monday. Britain and other...
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IPCC report downplays economic impacts of climate change, reviewer says
2014-03-24 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blayney Chronical: An upcoming United Nations report on climate change has been altered after the expert review stage, with changes added that downplay the economic impacts of a warming planet, according to one of the reviewers. Bob Ward, an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, also said alterations to the economics chapter of the draft report sent to governments included an assessment of a paper by the chapter's own lead co-ordinating author Richard Tol that contained at least one...
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