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We Have 12 Years to Limit a Climate Change Catastrophe

Matthew Fiala — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 21:01:37 +0000

Leading climate scientists have warned that we only have a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5C. Even a minuscule half degree higher will significantly worsen the risk of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people. United Nation climate experts say urgent and unprecedented […]

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Report: A Call for EU Action on Climate

Matthew Fiala — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 11:56:25 +0000

A leaked draft of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) upcoming report on keeping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius (oC) gives hope that the target is attainable, but only if urgent action is taken immediately. With global average temperatures just 1 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels, floods, droughts, wildfires and other extreme weather […]

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Scientists Pinpoint When and Where Global Warming Began

Mila Luleva — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 17:36:54 +0000

Scientists have successfully identified the first signs of global warming, dating back to the 1940s. These findings are crucial for future prediction of where the most vulnerable areas are likely to be. Study, conducted by UK climate scientists, shows that the first signs that global warming is happening could be observed in data collected back […]

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“Unusual Optimism” at Lima COP20 Climate Change Talks

Benji Jerew — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:05:16 +0000

Nearly 200 countries are being represented at the COP20 climate change talks, taking place over the next couple of weeks, in Lima, the capital of Peru. Even though climate change is no longer recognized as a “possibility,” but as “current events,” there seems to be an unusual amount of optimism in the air at the […]

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Climate Change – IPCC Says Cut Out the Carbon Dioxide Completely by Century’s End

Benji Jerew — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 23:12:29 +0000

It should come as no surprise that the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) doesn’t paint a rosy picture of a future earth, at least not at current rates of carbon dioxide emissions. The latest IPCC report uses the word “risk” to describe what climate change is doing to every single species on the planet, […]

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Climate Change Risky, But Can We Adapt?

Benji Jerew — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 14:26:28 +0000

The United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released, in previous years, three detailed reports analyzing the causes and effects of climate change. While the reports in themselves are extensive and exhaustive, covering every possible aspect of climate change, not every regulator and legislator has the time to pore through thousands of […]

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Geoengineering Techniques Debated by IPCC

Mila Luleva — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 17:21:47 +0000

The IPCC report, released almost two weeks ago, is still one of the leading news across the net. We could not have expected anything different, of course, since the danger that it predicts will affect every one of us. The U.N. Panel of experts as well as international governments are nearly in a state of […]

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Addressing Climate Change – The Great Hypocrisy

Benji Jerew — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 19:45:14 +0000

Now that we’ve had a chance to consider IPCC AR5, that is, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report, there’s one clear conclusion, we must stop use of fossil fuels. Of course, the question arises, “Who’s going to pay for all this?” In spite of political posturing, regarding how world governments […]

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Scientists Are 95% Positive That Humans Are Responsible for Climate Change

Leigh Hutchens — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 02:31:01 +0000

Listen up people. This is serious. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released an assessment of current climate research and the IPCC’s conclusions could not be any clearer. There is 95% certainty that humans are responsible for warming the atmosphere, and we are getting closer and closer to the point of no return. […]

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IPCC Fifth Climate Change Assessment Report Due September 30th

Benji Jerew — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:50:24 +0000

The United Nations [UN] Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC] is due to release their fifth assessment report [AR5] on September 30, 2013, and climate change deniers are ramping up their activities urging us “not to worry about it.” Interestingly, the more scientists come together on the issue of climate change study, recognizing that human […]

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Climate Change Action is Better for Long Term Economic Growth, IPCC Reports

Benji Jerew — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 19:48:10 +0000

Every time that a discussion is started on climate change, the economy gets dragged into it and the comment, by climate change deniers, especially, is that climate change activists “hate the economy.” Every time I hear that excuse for environmental inaction, it makes me laugh when we hear how much the last severe storm cost […]

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Climate Change Deniers Manipulate Leaked IPCC Report to Downplay Human Involvement in Climate Change

Leigh Hutchens — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:51:10 +0000

On his blog Stop Green Suicide, blogger Alec Rawls prematurely published the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) fifth assessment report. The report was in draft form and was still being peer reviewed. The draft noted that there is definite and consistent evidence that an observable net energy uptake of the earth system is caused […]

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