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James Lovelock: environmentalism has become a religion
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 30th, 2014
Guardian: Environmentalism has "become a religion" and does not pay enough attention to facts, according to James Lovelock.
The 94 year-old scientist, famous for his Gaia hypothesis that Earth is a self-regulating, single organism, also said that he had been too certain about the rate of global warming in his past book, that "it’s just as silly to be a [climate] denier as it is to be a believer” and that fracking and nuclear power should power the UK, not renewable sources such as windfarms.
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IPCC Says Climate Change is Here, World Needs to Adapt
Posted by Climate Central: Andrea Thompson on March 30th, 2014
Climate Central: The overall warming of the planet has had a clear impact on Earth's natural systems and human society and will pose increased -- and potentially disastrous -- risks in the future if the world does not make a more concerted effort to adapt and try to prevent the worst possible outcomes. That's the continued message from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations-established body made up of hundreds of scientists who review and summarize the state of climate science and...
IPCC report: how humans are changing the climate
Posted by Advocate: Peter Hannam on March 30th, 2014
Advocate: Welcome to our live blog on the release of the second report of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report.
The much-anticipated - and leaked - report is the work of a small army of researchers and reviewers. In fact, there are some 309 coordinating lead authors, lead authors and review editors, without counting the hundreds of contributing editors and expert reviewers.
The Working Group II report has been produced by 309 coordinating lead authors, lead authors and
review editors, who in turn enlisted...
U.N.: Little time left to reduce world’s heat
Posted by CNN: Matt Smith and Brandon Miller on March 30th, 2014
CNN: That's the latest conclusion from the United Nations, which urged governments to address the "increasingly clear" threats posed by a warming climate before some options are closed off for good. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that taking steps to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions blamed for rising temperatures could buy more time to adjust to a warmer world.
Cutting emissions now "increases the time available for adaptation to a particular level...
IPCC report finds world might be irreversibly changed
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 30th, 2014
Sydney Morning Herald: The IPCC report finds Artic-sea ice is at very high risk under two degrees of warming beyond that observed in 1986 and 2005. Photo: AP Climate change is already being felt in all corners of the globe and some parts of the natural world may already be undergoing irreversible change, a major assessment by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has found. The report on the impact of climate change -- the first of its kind in seven years -- stresses that the likelihood climate change will...
Climate change: poor will suffer most
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 30th, 2014
Guardian: Pensioners left on their own during a heatwave in industrialised countries. Single mothers in rural areas. Workers who spend most of their days outdoors. Slum dwellers in the megacities of the developing world.
These are some of the vulnerable groups who will feel the brunt of climate change as its effects become more pronounced in the coming decades, according to a game-changing report from the UN's climate panel released on Monday. Climate change is occurring on all continents and in the oceans,...
UN document warning of grave climate future completed
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 30th, 2014
Agence France-Presse: Leading scientists and officials completed a fresh climate report Sunday expected to lay bare the grim impact of climate change, with warnings that global food shortages could spark violence in vulnerable areas.
Part of a massive overview by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) set for release on Monday, the report is likely to shape international policy on climate for years to come, and will announce that the impact of global warming is already being felt.
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U.N. science report: Warming worsens security woes
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 30th, 2014
Associated Press: In an authoritative report due out Monday a United Nations climate panel for the first time is connecting hotter global temperatures to hotter global tempers. Top scientists are saying that climate change will complicate and worsen existing global security problems, such as civil wars, strife between nations and refugees.
They`re not saying it will cause violence, but will be an added factor making things even more dangerous. Fights over resources, like water and energy, hunger and extreme weather...
Antarctic ice study reveals accelerated sea level rise
Posted by Environmental News Network: ClickGreen Staff on March 30th, 2014
Environmental News Network: Six massive glaciers in West Antarctica are moving faster than they did 40 years ago, causing more ice to discharge into the ocean and global sea level to rise, according to new research. The amount of ice draining collectively from those half-dozen glaciers increased by 77 percent from 1973 to 2013, scientists report this month in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. Pine Island Glacier, the most active of the studied glaciers, has accelerated by 75 percent...
Report: Climate change to affect NZ agriculture
Posted by 3 News: None Given on March 30th, 2014
3 News: Famine, fire, flooding, species extinctions and global violence -- it sounds like the apocalypse but they are all things likely to become more common as the Earth gets warmer.
Tomorrow the most authoritative, comprehensive and up-to-date report on how climate will affect humanity is being released. The picture it will paint is not a pretty one.
Earlier this month Christchurch was hit by a one-in-100-year storm while Waikato and Northland farmers were and continue to be in drought-like conditions....