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Secretary of State Kerry on UN Climate Report: ‘Costs Inaction Are Catastrophic’
Posted by Hill: Justin Sink on March 31st, 2014
Hill: The release of a United Nations report detailing the pervasive effects of climate change should serve as a call to action for the world’s nations to curb the emission of greenhouse gases, Secretary of State John Kerry argued Sunday night.
In a statement issued by the State Department, Kerry called denial of climate change science “malpractice” and warned the “costs of inaction are catastrophic.”
“Read this report and you can't deny the reality: Unless we act dramatically and quickly, science...
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Comments Off on Secretary of State Kerry on UN Climate Report: ‘Costs Inaction Are Catastrophic’New UN Report Warns of a Warming World
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 31st, 2014
Time: A new report on climate change warns the impact of rising temperatures on crop yields, water supplies and sea levels may push our planet over the edge
There have been thousands and thousands and thousands of studies published on climate change since 2007, when the U.N.`s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its fourth major assessment on global warming. It has taken hundreds and hundreds of scientists to comb through all that research. But the broad, basic message of all...
IPCC report: Climate change impacts occurring from the tropics to the poles
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 31st, 2014
Edie: The IPCC report says climate change impacts are occurring from the tropics to the poles, from small islands to large continents, and from the wealthiest countries to the poorest The effects of climate change are already occurring on all continents and across the oceans, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) latest report. Related articles Exxon Mobil agrees to report on climate change's effect on business model
Released today, the IPCC's Working Group II report, Climate...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on IPCC report: Climate change impacts occurring from the tropics to the polesDetailing the impact of climate change on a global scale
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 31st, 2014
Globe and Mail: A new report from the IPCC sets out the risks, from insecurity over food supplies to violent international conflicts over access to water
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Detailing the impact of climate change on a global scaleGlobal warming threat heightened in latest U.N. report
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 31st, 2014
Reuters: Global warming poses a mounting threat to the health, economic prospects, and food and water sources of billions of people, a report by top scientists said, in a call for urgent action to counter the effects of carbon emissions.
The latest report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), places an emphasis on the risks and may make the case for cutting greenhouse gas emissions clearer both to policymakers and the public by placing it in the category of an insurance policy...
World Not Ready for Climate Change, New Report Says
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 31st, 2014
National Geographic: On Monday morning in Japan (Sunday evening on the U.S. East Coast), the world's leading body of climate scientists will release a major report on the impacts of climate change, with the goal of spurring world leaders to act more decisively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
"Observed impacts of climate change are widespread and consequential," the scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) write in a draft version of the new report, which was leaked online. The final report...
IPCC report warns future climate change risks, but is spun by contrarians
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 31st, 2014
Guardian: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just published its latest Working Group II report detailing impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability associated with climate change. The picture it paints with respect to the consequences of continued climate change is rather bleak.
For example, the report discusses the risk associated with food insecurity due to more intense droughts, floods, and heat waves in a warmer world, especially for poorer countries. This contradicts the claims of climate...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on IPCC report warns future climate change risks, but is spun by contrariansThe hellish monotony of 25 years of IPCC climate change warnings
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 31st, 2014
Guardian: Entire island nations "rendered uninhabitable", millions of people to be displaced by floods and rising seas, uncertainties over global food supplies and severe impacts on human health across the world.
The news from the United Nations on the likely impacts of climate change is dire, especially for the poorest people on the planet.
There will likely be more floods, more droughts and more intense heatwaves, says the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
As human emissions of greenhouse...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on The hellish monotony of 25 years of IPCC climate change warningsPanel’s Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 31st, 2014
New York Times: Climate change is already having sweeping effects on every continent and throughout the world's oceans, scientists reported Monday, and they warned that the problem is likely to grow substantially worse unless greenhouse emissions are brought under control. The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations group that periodically summarizes climate science, concluded that ice caps are melting, sea ice in the Arctic is collapsing, water supplies are coming under stress,...
Report: Effects climate change seen everywhere
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 31st, 2014
USA Today: Climate change is affecting all parts of the globe, and the gap between the latest science on climatic change and government action to cut greenhouse emissions remains large, according to a sweeping U.N. report out today.
"In recent decades, changes in climate have caused impacts ... on all continents and across the oceans," according to a landmark report released early Monday in Yokohama, Japan, by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world's most comprehensive...