Policymakers of the world, get ready. Tomorrow, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases its Synthesis Report that will attempt to summarize the world's climate-y plight in a language governments can understand. Saturday's report will be the official abbreviated version of the 2,500 pages of scientific reports the IPCC churned out earlier this year. The summary aims to walk the fine line between polite appeals for action and making sure governments know just how screwed we are in the face of inaction on climate change.
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James Dailey Posted 3:25 am
16 Nov 2007
Seriously, I doubt more than a few thousand people worldwide ever read it. I think I even needed a librarian's help at a UN Repository library to even find it. It is too bad, to put it mildly, that stronger action wasn't taken then - when there was a chance to actually prevent some of the outcomes we are now likely to see. Looking on the bright side, at least now governments, a multitude of NGOs, and even journalists will read the 2007 reports.
http://www1.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/assessments-reports.htm
What remains to be seen is, beyond the gnashing of teeth, rattling of sabers, shouting from soapboxes, advice column editorials, and climate change commemorative saris in Bali, will anything actually change?
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