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The Destitution Will Not Be Televised ... But There Is This Report
World's poor to be shafted most by climate change, U.N. report says |
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27 Nov 2007 |
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| Posted at 6:59 AM on 27 Nov 2007 It's official: The world's poorest people will be the most screwed over by climate change and its ill effects, including drought, agricultural failures, water shortages, disease, flooding, and all the rest, according to a new report from the United Nations Development Program. "For millions of people, these are events that ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, scientific research, United Nations (all these topics) |
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The Bali's in Your Court
Latest IPCC climate report comes out strong, lays groundwork for Bali talks |
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19 Nov 2007 |
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| Posted at 8:11 AM on 19 Nov 2007 "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal," warned the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its hardest-hitting report yet, released on Saturday. Delegates from more than 140 countries came to agreement on the document, which summarizes three previous reports and warns of the grave dangers posed by climate change. The ne ... |
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| Topics: Bali 07, climate, news, scientific research, United Nations (all these topics) |
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IPCC Synthesis Report coming out Saturday |
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16 Nov 2007 |
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| Posted at 8:57 AM on 16 Nov 2007 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 betwee ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, scientific research, United Nations (all these topics) |
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