Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 15 Jul 2015 06:17:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 How Carbon Sequestration Might Have a Chance, After All https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carbon-sequestration-chance/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carbon-sequestration-chance/#respond Wed, 15 Jul 2015 06:17:04 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=55685 Most public campaigns to curtail global warming focus on reducing carbon emissions into the atmosphere. However, climate scientists recognize that a second very important factor has not yet made its way to the forefront of climate control. We need to find new carbon sequestration methods, too. Graphs like the one pictured here, from the United Nations […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carbon-sequestration-chance/feed/ 0 55685 Awaiting the Coming Shift in Climate Change Awareness https://www.greenoptimistic.com/awaiting-coming-shift-climate-change-awareness-20140828/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/awaiting-coming-shift-climate-change-awareness-20140828/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2014 20:55:51 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=49047 Looking at the activities of the general public and political and business leaders, there seems to be quite the disconnect between that and what scientists are saying about climate change and the need for action. Ignoring climate change for just a moment, if you went to a cardiologist and was diagnosed as being at high […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/awaiting-coming-shift-climate-change-awareness-20140828/feed/ 1 49047 IPCC Report – Climate Change Worst is Yet to Come https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ipcc-report-climate-change-worst-is-yet-to-come-20140403/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ipcc-report-climate-change-worst-is-yet-to-come-20140403/#respond Thu, 03 Apr 2014 17:15:55 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=46819 Climate change science is telling us that the damage is already done, and that what we’re seeing today is just a hint of what’s to come as the climate continues to destabilize. For example, because ice caps and glaciers are melting faster than they are growing, sea levels are already rising enough to threaten coastal […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ipcc-report-climate-change-worst-is-yet-to-come-20140403/feed/ 0 46819 Climate Change Affects Every Part of Human Civilization – IPCC Report https://www.greenoptimistic.com/climate-change-affects-every-part-human-civilization-ipcc-report-20140325/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/climate-change-affects-every-part-human-civilization-ipcc-report-20140325/#comments Tue, 25 Mar 2014 17:21:28 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=46648 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is finishing a massive report on climate change and its effects, not only on the planet and the animals and plants that live here, but also human civilization. Of course, when we see polar bears losing their habitat due to sea ice melting earlier and forming later, it […]

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