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The latest report from the IPCC is the first to abandon the measured tone of its previous ones and foretell what it considers a climate catastrophe for human civilization unless the world makes an abrupt U-turn and begins dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions almost immediately.
And yet, even this forecast is probably too conservative in its pronouncements.
What’s in the latest IPCC report?
A translation of the IPCC 5th Assessment Report Summary for Policymakers
•Climate Change 2013: the Physical Science Basis •Carbon Brief’s guide to the IPCC report •Climate Panel Says Upper Limit on Emissions Is Nearing •Is global warming in a hiatus? Not if you measure global heat content •Global warming: why is IPCC report so certain about the influence of humans? •Climate Skeptic Groups Launch Global Anti-Science Campaign •Big business funds effort to discredit climate science, warns UN official
Much of the media believes climate change isn’t what gets measured and reported by scientists, but is somehow a dialectic or a debate between scientists and deniers.
•New IPCC Report: Climatologists More Certain Global Warming Is Caused By Humans, Impacts Are Speeding Up •European forests near ‘carbon saturation point’ •Scientists have a moral obligation to take action on climate change •Study: Watching Fox News Makes You Distrust Climate Scientists
Arctic sea-ice expert and editor of the upcoming IPCC report Prof. Peter Wadhams, talks to Tom O’Brien about the imminent collapse of the Arctic summer ice and catastrophic climate change.
