And now, ladies and gents, the moment you've all been waiting for. The Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, with input from delegates of more than 140 countries, has synthesized three previous reports into one 70-page summary document and a 20-page summary of that summary, meant to be an "instant guide" to policymakers who will meet in Indonesia next month to discuss climate-change next steps. The synthesis, approved and being formally adopted on Saturday, declares: "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal." Human activity is more than 90 percent likely to be the cause, and "could lead to abrupt and irreversible climate changes and impacts." Says Hans Verolme of WWF, "After this report, there are no politicians left who can argue they don't know what climate change is or they don't know what to do about it." Oh? We bet we know at least one.
source: Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, BBC News
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Delay And Deny Posted 2:45 pm
17 Nov 2007
has synthesized three previous reports into one 70-page summary document and a 20-page summary of that summary
So, therefore, any error in the initial reports is magnified that much more.
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wendypenner Posted 8:52 pm
17 Nov 2007
If you've read any good coverage please post the links. I'd love to know who is publishing it.
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mspelto Posted 9:39 am
18 Nov 2007
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Pathos Posted 12:55 pm
18 Nov 2007
American news sucks. It's not biased, so much as it is useless and full of irrelevant bull$#!!.
I know, because I live in America, too. :)
Mspelto (M. Spelto? Ms. Pelto? Misspelt-o?) is right; go with BBC. I won't say they'll tell you everything you need to know, but they do cover everything that's news.
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Andrew Dessler Posted 1:41 pm
18 Nov 2007
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wendypenner Posted 11:55 pm
18 Nov 2007
I keep trying to imagine what sort of staged media event about climate change could ever attract the attention of the "cop kills wife" or "britney's acting looney" news. Maybe if we could get people to have group sex in their Priuses at a Hummer dealership would get some attention? How about a solar powered sex toys? Ideas anyone?
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trock Posted 1:13 am
19 Nov 2007
This is only a summary of the other 3 reports, so has already been reported. And the other 3 reports were in the summer, when it was hotter. We had cool breezes around here this week.
global warming is just not funny enough. to much like work.
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