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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Greenland study Sea-level rise could be double IPCC projections	Joseph Romm	12 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Last year, Nature Geoscience and Science (PDF) published major articles suggesting that the consensus projection for sea-level rise this century was far too low -- and could be as high as five feet. Now the Journal of Glaciology joins in with a remarkable analysis, 'Intermittent thinning of Jakobshavn Isbræ, West Greenland, since the Little Ice Age' (PDF). The lead author, Beata Csatho from the University of Buffalo, explains implications of this work for the traditi ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, IPCC, oceans (all these topics)

Breaking News: Climate Changing IPCC synthesis report confirms global warming is a force to be reckoned with		16 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 2:43 PM on 16 Nov 2007 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 ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, IPCC, news (all these topics)

Earth still round; sky, blue	David Roberts	25 Oct 2007	Gristmill
IPCC: climate change will hit poor hardest.
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity, IPCC (all these topics)

Biofuels and the poor The former: Not good for the latter	Maywa Montenegro	22 May 2007	Gristmill
How climate change will disproportionately affect the world's poor is a message making the rounds of late, after the publication of the second IPCC report earlier this year. How climate change policies, such as carbon taxes, will either help or hurt the poor is also a topic we've been discussing of late. Now researchers at the University of Minnesota have assessed the impact of an increased dependence on biofuels on the developing world ... and the outlook isn't ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, carbon tax, climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, energy, IPCC (all these topics)

Another blow against denial New Monbiot piece	JMG	01 May 2007	Gristmill
From 'The Rich World's Policy on Greenhouse Gas Now Seems Clear: Millions Will Die,' by George Monbiot: Rich nations seeking to cut climate change have this in common: they lie. You won't find this statement in the draft of the new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was leaked to the Guardian last week. But as soon as you understand the numbers, the words form before your eyes. The governments making genuine efforts to tackle global warming are usi ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, greenhouse-gas emissions, IPCC, politics (all these topics)

Responsibility The view from Washington	Tom Athanasiou	18 Apr 2007	Gristmill
So here I am in Washington (the other one) in a homey B&B just eight blocks from the White House. I came here for a number of reasons, not the least of which is attending a conference called Climate Change and International Development (which was, by the way, recorded, and it is said that videos will be available here.) It was pretty good, and the less-public strategy meeting that followed it today (at the Friends of the Earth offices) was even better. Strategic ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, IPCC, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

Summary of the IPCC Summary for Policymakers, part III This time, it's personal	Joseph Romm	11 Apr 2007	Gristmill
(Continued from parts I and II.) Last but not least (actually, what quite literally hits closest to home!): North America Moderate climate change in the early decades of the century is projected to increase aggregate yields of rain-fed agriculture by 5-20 percent, but with important variability among regions. Warming in Western mountains is projected to cause decreased snowpack, more winter flooding, and reduced summer flows, exacerbating competition for ove ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, IPCC, politics, United States (all these topics)

Summary of the IPCC Summary for Policymakers, part II Continued ...	Joseph Romm	11 Apr 2007	Gristmill
And now for the IPCC report's regional assessments, continued from yesterday:Africa By 2020, between 75 and 250 million people are projected to be exposed to an increase of water stress due to climate change. The area suitable for agriculture, the length of growing seasons, and yield potential, particularly along the margins of semi-arid and arid areas, are expected to decrease. This would further adversely affect food security and exacerbate malnutrition in the co ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, IPCC (all these topics)

Summary of the IPCC Summary for Policymakers, part I Summarizin'	Joseph Romm	10 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The summary for policymakers (PDF) of the report by the IPCC Second Working Group is out! A summary of the summary: Where does the information come from? The IPCC, WGI's 4AR on the Scientific Basis of climate change. 29,000 observational data series crossed with expected changes to physical and biological systems based on those observations, with 89% consistency between the two. Models, some of which account for non-anthropogenic sources of warming (solar an ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, IPCC (all these topics)

We Hear Mars Is Nice This Time of Year Top scientists say global warming is triggering ecosystem changes around the globe		06 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
We Hear Mars Is Nice This Time of Year Top scientists say global warming is triggering ecosystem changes around the globe The natural world is already getting knocked around by climate change, the world's top climate experts said today. In the second of four reports being released this year by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the group looked at the impacts of global warming, both present and proj ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, IPCC, news (all these topics)

Latest IPCC report notes grim effects of climate change on ecosystems As expected, the news is mostly bad, and then worse, and then worse still	Lisa Hymas	05 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Climate change is already having big impacts on the natural world and notable effects on human societies, according to the latest climate report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, being released on Friday. In short, climate change isn't in the future; it's in the right now. The previous installment from the IPCC, released in early February, concluded with at least 90 percent certainty that humans are causing global warming. This latest report says wit ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, IPCC (all these topics)

Highway to hell More on fourth IPCC report	Joseph Romm	03 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Bring your tissue to this one. On Friday, the IPCC publicizes its 'emotional heart,' the Second Working Group's contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report, covering impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. Preliminary drafts have been leaked. Why is it shaping up to be such a tear-jerker? According to Andrew Weaver, a lead author of Working Group I and climate scientist at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, this one illustrates 'a highway to extinction, ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, IPCC (all these topics)

The scientific debate Some thoughts	David Roberts	05 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Part of the confusion over Revkin's article is that there isn't one "climate debate." There are several. I'm going to taxonomize them in another post, but first I want to say something about the scientific one. This debate, as many folks have pointed out, is pretty much over. The denialists are wrong and they've been completely discredited. Every serious person involved in the climate change discussion accepts the broad conclusions of the IPCC. However, ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, IPCC (all these topics)

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