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The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler  · 28 Jan 2020  · 501pp  · 114,888 words

, before shifting focus to technological unemployment, rogue AIs, and other threats that go bump in the exponential night. Water Woes In 2018, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released their “Special Report on Global Warming,” which reached a stark conclusion: We humans have broken the planet. By falling in love with industrial technology

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be all in and right now. Stanford researchers give us three generations to halt species die-off before ecosystem services shut down in earnest. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates we have twelve years to halt global warming at 1.5 degrees. Yet we already have the technology required to meet these challenges, and

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this impact are startling. And climbing. In 1990, the very first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report warned that even a slight rise in sea levels could produce “tens of millions of environmental refugees.” In 1993, Oxford scientist Norman Myers controversially updated the IPCC’s prediction, arguing that climate change could displace as many as 200

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Real Thing,” Forbes, January 9, 2019. PART 3: THE FASTER FUTURE Chapter Thirteen: Threats and Solutions Water Woes “Special Report on Global Warming”: The intergovernmental panel on climate change, see: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/. Global Risks Report: World Economic Forum, “Global Risks Report 2018: 13th Edition,” January 17, 2018. See: https://www.weforum.org/reports

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/03/Immigrants-and-Billion-Dollar-Startups.NFAP-Policy-Brief.March-2016.pdf. Climate Migrations the very first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: “Climate Change: The IPCC 1990 and 1992 Assessments,” Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2010. See: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/climate-change-the-ipcc-1990-and-1992-assessments/. Oxford scientist Norman Myers: Norman Myers, “Environmental Refugees: A Growing Phenomenon of the

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–87 data and, 185–86 dynamic risk and, 187–89 origins of, 182–83 sensors and, 188–89 statistics and, 186 intercellular communication, altered, 172 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 212, 227, 241 International Astronautical Congress (2017), 20 International Space Station, 53 internet, 39 browsers for, 32 innovation and, 83 job creation and, 23, 229

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The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 27 Sep 2011  · 443pp  · 112,800 words

in Copenhagen to address the greatest challenge to ever face the human race—industrial-induced climate change. A report issued in Paris by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in March 2007 presented a stark account of the scope of the problem. More than 2,500 scientists from more than 100 nations contributed to

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capsule. Scientists say there is more organic matter under the permafrost in Siberia than in all of the tropical rainforests in the world. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change mentioned the permafrost problem, in passing, in its fourth assessment report, noting that if the permafrost coat melts, it could trigger a potentially catastrophic release

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French President Jacques Chirac to host a high-level workshop for government and business leaders from around the world on the day that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was to issue its long-anticipated Fourth Assessment Synthesis Report in Paris. The workshop was tasked with exploring the various economic initiatives that would be

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a Hill Survive? Washington Post, p. A23. 33.Jarraud, M., & Steiner, A. (2007, November 17). Foreword. Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report. Valencia, Spain: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Retrieved from http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/syr/en/frontmattersforeword.html. 34.Solomon, S., et al. (2007). Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution

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of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications

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. In Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 254. Retrieved from http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-chapter3.pdf 41.Bernstein, L., Bosch, P., Canziani, O., Chen, Z., Christ

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, R., Davidson, O., Yohe, G. (2007, November 17). Observed Changes in Climate and Their Effects. In Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report. Valencia, Spain: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, p. 32. Retrieved

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). In Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 676. Retrieved from http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch15.html; Instanes, A. (2005). Infrastructure: Buildings, Support Systems, and Industrial Facilities. In

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of South American Nations (UNASUR), 163, 167, 176–81 United Kingdom, 145–9, 267 United Nations Climate Report, 25 Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), 14 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 24, 27, 95 urban life, 81, 255 Utrecht (the Netherlands), 78, 100–3 Vattenfall, 62 Venezuela, 177–9 Verheugen, Günter, 66, 75 Vietnam War, 11

The Levelling: What’s Next After Globalization

by Michael O’sullivan  · 28 May 2019  · 756pp  · 120,818 words

climate change. The existing climate-change governance framework is largely made up of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), though in recent years, the IPCC has struggled to gain credibility and power. Another element here, the Paris Agreement signed in April 2016, is neither binding nor enforceable

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AR5 Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change, contribution of Working Group III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, p. 927, https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg3/ipcc_wg3_ar5_chapter12.pdf; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, “Livestock a Major Threat to Environment,” November 29

City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

by Megan Kimble  · 2 Apr 2024  · 430pp  · 117,211 words

1990, even as fuel efficiency increased by 18 percent, total vehicle emissions jumped by 22 percent. To meet the carbon reduction targets set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a report by the Rocky Mountain Institute found, the transportation sector needs to reduce carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. To do that, we

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to revitalizing downtown, 204–5 State Department of Transportation and removal of, 206–7 TIGER program and removal of, 109, 204, 207 use of, 203 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 272 Interregional Highway (Austin), 17, 217. See also Austin: I-35 Interstate Highway Act (1956), 28, 30, 101 interstate highway system Bragdon appointed overseer of

Climate Change

by Joseph Romm  · 3 Dec 2015  · 358pp  · 93,969 words

the top scientists of the world with regularly summarizing and reporting on the latest research and observations. The central purpose of the resulting United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was to provide the best science to policymakers. In the ensuing years, the science has gotten stronger, in large part because observations around the

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the science. Rather, it takes as a starting point the overwhelming consensus of our top global experts and governments, as laid out in the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change summary reviews of the literature, culminating with the November 2014 “Synthesis Report.” The 2014 Report issued their bluntest statement yet to the world: Cut

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certainty the climate is warming because of the vast and growing amount of evidence pointing to such a conclusion. In 2007, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC)—a scientific body with hundreds of the world’s top scientists and climate experts—released its Fourth Assessment Report, which summarized thousands of scientific studies

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versus natural causes? The latest science finds that all of the warming since 1970 is due to human causes. In September 2013, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the first part of its Fifth Assessment Report, a summary report of the scientific literature. That summary was approved line-by-line by

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Fahrenheit (under a degree Celsius) over a period of several thousand years. In its final 2014 synthesis of more than 30,000 scientific studies, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded, “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia.” How

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expected. Consider the Arctic ice cap. After 2000, the Arctic began to lose sea ice several decades ahead of every single climate model the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was using at the time. Those models had projected that the Arctic Ocean would not go ice free in the summer until 2080 or later

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up an advisory body in 1988 of top scientists and other climate experts to review the scientific literature every few years, they named it the “Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.” Climate change or global climate change is generally considered a “more scientifically accurate term,” than global warming, as NASA explained in 2008, in part

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such as carbon dioxide) will further accelerate all of these trends during this century. The 2007 review and assessment of the scientific literature by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change acknowledged the danger: A warming climate encourages wildfires through a longer summer period that dries fuels, promoting easier ignition and faster spread. Westerling et

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to similar percentage increases in heavy rainfall, which has generally been borne out by models and observed changes in daily rainfall.” The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded in its comprehensive 2013 Fifth Assessment of climate science that it is likely heavy rainfall has already begun increasing over most land areas worldwide

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warmer world marked by extreme heat-waves, declining global food stocks, loss of ecosystems and biodiversity, and life-threatening sea level rise.” The April 2014 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report from the world leading scientists and governments reviewing the scientific literature on climate change mitigation (greenhouse gas reduction) explained, “Baseline scenarios, those without

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that many science communicators, including many in the media, focus on just no. 1, the equilibrium or fast-feedback climate sensitivity. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in its 2007 Fourth Assessment that the fast-feedback sensitivity is “likely to be in the range 2 to 4.5°C with a

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what climate models have projected? The thawing tundra or permafrost may well be the single most important amplifying carbon-cycle feedback. Yet, none of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s climate models include carbon dioxide or methane emissions from warming tundra as a feedback. Therefore, those models likely underestimate future warming. The tundra

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sea levels will be rising by century’s end has also increased, with one leading expert putting the number at 1 foot per decade. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in its 2013 review of the scientific literature, had projected that sea-level rise by 2100 would be 0.52 to 0.98 meters (

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of negative impacts are projected to increasingly outweigh positive impacts,” as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded in its comprehensive 2014 literature review on “Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability.”31 Most worrisome, if humanity stays near its current path of greenhouse gas emissions, the IPCC warns with “high confidence” that “the combination of high temperature

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fast. Moreover, humans are increasingly working to help species survive, even helping with “species migration and dispersal,” as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change changed noted in its 2014 Fifth Assessment. Even so, the IPCC warned that we are risking “substantial species extinction … with risk increasing with both magnitude and rate of climate change.” There

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°C Warmer World Must be Avoided.” The Bank noted that the latest science was “much less optimistic” than what had been reported in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2007 Fourth Assessment report: These results suggest instead a rapidly rising risk of crop yield reductions as the world warms. Large negative effects have

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-group violence.” That was a key summary conclusion of what the scientific literature says about climate “Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability,” as the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported in 2014. A landmark study from 2015 says climate change has done just that in Syria. And a 2014 U.S. Department of Defense

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stop rising until we cut global emissions of CO2 to 80% or more below current levels, that would require an aggressive worldwide effort. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its Fifth Assessment of the scientific literature developed some Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) to model future warming projections depending on how well we are

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worst-case scenario for climate change this century? The overwhelming majority of scientific research on climate change is not about the worst-case scenario. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in its more than one-quarter century of existence, has never plainly laid out what that worst-case scenario is and what it would

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the issue in the most recent international assessment of climate science by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—the November 2014 full, final “synthesis” report in its Fifth Assessment all of the scientific and economic literature. In the IPCC’s final “synthesis” report of its Fourth Assessment, issued in 2007, irreversibility was only

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climate science and policy institute, in their 2014 history of the goal. It was a build-up of scientific evidence, as documented in the various Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, especially the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) in 2007, which won the Nobel Peace Prize and ultimately created the political consensus for action. Stefan

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productivity and economic growth. The world’s top scientists and economists made a similar finding in April 2014. That is when the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its Fifth Assessment report reviewing the scientific and economic literature on mitigation, which they define as “human intervention to reduce the sources or enhance

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relative to a baseline development without climate policy. The last column shows that the annualized consumption growth reduction over the century is 0.06%. Source: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2014. Note that this cost estimate does not count the economic benefit of avoiding the most dangerous climate impacts. A few years ago, scientists

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a rapidly growing snowball. At some point, the snowball will simply accelerate and expand on its own until it becomes a deadly avalanche. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that the risks accumulate very quickly as we warm beyond 2°C. In May 2014, we learned that with the 0.85°C warming

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to reduce future impacts, abatement (mitigation) can reduce them far more. In addition, some changes are very likely beyond our ability to deal with. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change November 2014 “synthesis” of the scientific literature said we are risking “severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.” Scientists and governments have “

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be close to zero, if not below zero. In its 2014 Fifth Assessment report reviewing the scientific and economic literature on mitigation, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that “CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes contributed about 78% of the total GHG emission increase from 1970 to 2010,

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considerable amount of natural gas for the next few decades. However, a number of studies, including comprehensive surveys and analyses by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the International Energy Agency, suggest that if we are to stabilize global temperatures below 2°C, natural gas has a very short window in

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time, however, it is unclear whether large-scale geothermal power could be a major contributor (>5%) to a very low-carbon global energy system. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has estimated it could contribute 4%. Likewise, the IEA’s 2011 “Technology Roadmap: Geothermal Heat and Power” report foresees that with concerted effort, geothermal

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accurately estimate biochar stability over time” and so “it is too early to rely on biochar as an effective climate mitigation tool.” The 2014 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report reviewing the literature on mitigation found that biochar might be able to remove substantial CO2 from the air—if there were enough available biomass

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on rainfall intensity, 50–51 UK Royal Society. see British Royal Society UNFCCC. see United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change United Nations (UN) IPCC of (see Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on cutting GHG emissions country-by-country variability in, 154–155 described, 149–151 goal

The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-First Century

by Ronald Bailey  · 20 Jul 2015  · 417pp  · 109,367 words

future indeed, with as many as 30 to 50 percent of all species possibly heading toward extinction by mid-century.” In 2013, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change affirmed, “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia.” Globe-spanning

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seas are rising. These facts are not scientifically in dispute. As Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis, the 2013 report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), states: “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia.” The report

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overestimates warming compared to actual temperature trends. Also in January, Duke University climatologists analyzed outputs from thirty-four of the climate models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its Fifth Assessment Report. They report in the Journal of Geophysical Research that the models more or less tracked each other with regard to

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at around 3 percent per year, total GDP in real dollars would reach $888 trillion in 2100. Many scenarios, including those used by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), suggest that world population will stabilize or even fall below 8.5 billion people by 2100. This yields an average income of over $104,000

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Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

by Michael Shellenberger  · 28 Jun 2020

, humanistic, and rational environmentalism. Every fact, claim, and argument in this book is based on the best-available science, including as assessed by the prestigious Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and other scientific bodies. Apocalypse Never defends mainstream science from those who deny it on the

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Those stories in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other media outlets around the world were based on a special report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is a United Nations body of 195 scientists and other members from around the globe responsible for assessing science related to climate change. Two

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the overall issue is that these deaths are going to happen.” “But most scientists don’t agree with this,” says Neil. “I looked through [the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s recent reports] and see no reference to billions of people going to die, or children going to die in under twenty years. . . . How would

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more important—threats to endangered sea life, which may be easier to address than climate change or plastic waste. For example, overfishing, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, “is one of the most important non-climatic drivers affecting the sustainability of fisheries.”71 The amount of fish and fish products for human consumption

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, not just between nations but between disciplines. IIASA pioneered an interdisciplinary approach to systems analysis, a version of which would later be adopted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The picture of evolution as a series of replacements inspired Marchetti. For much of his life he has collected typewriters, from some of the first

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have only grown stronger. In 2019, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published a special report on food and agriculture. “Scientists say that we must immediately change the way we manage land, produce food and eat less meat in order to halt the climate crisis,” reported CNN.2 IPCC scientists expect the demand for food to

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view was mainstream back then and remains so today. Indeed, it is at the heart of the discussions of climate mitigation in reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and other scientific bodies. And rather than being similar to a tobacco industry scientist, Schelling is widely

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Understanding and Uncertainties,” in Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis, edited by Thomas F. Stocker, Dahe Quin, Gian-Kasper Plattner et al., Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2013, https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/WG1AR5_SummaryVolume_FINAL.pdf, 47–59. 31. The Zuidplaspolder in the western Netherlands is 6.76m below sea

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Book Award from the Stevens Institute of Technology’s Center for Science Writings; and an invited expert reviewer of the next Assessment Report for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has written on energy and the environment for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Nature Energy, and other publications

The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 31 Dec 2009  · 879pp  · 233,093 words

expected to turn into a human swarm of two hundred million or more displaced persons by mid-century.1 In January 2007, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC) issued its long-anticipated fourth assessment report. Twenty-five hundred scientists across a range of scientific disciplines and fields from more than 130 nations

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oxide, and is now the second leading cause of global warming after energy consumed in buildings.7 Understandably, Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize), has asked consumers to reduce their consumption of meat as a first step in addressing climate change

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. “Climate Change ‘Will Cause Refugee Crisis.’ ” Independent Online. October 20, 2006. 2 United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis: Summary for Policy Makers: Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. p. 2. 3 Ibid. p. 3. 4 Ibid. 5 Ibid. p. 5. 6

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Options, 2006. p. 272. ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/a0701e/A0701E07.pdf 8 Ibid. 9 United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. February 2 2007. Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. p. 12 www.ipcc.ch/ 10 Stainforth, D. A., T. Alna, C. Christensen, M. Collins, N. Fauli, D. J. Frame, J. A

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Climate Response to Rising Levels of Greenhouse Gases.” Nature. Vol. 433. No. 27. 2005. 11 Bemstein, Lenny, et al. Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr.pdf 12 Whitty, Julia. “By the End of the Century Half of All Species Will Be Gone

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The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

by Daniel Yergin  · 14 May 2011  · 1,373pp  · 300,577 words

be taken that would frame how the world sees climate change today. In November 1988 a group of scientists met in Geneva to inaugurate the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This launch might have been lost in the alphabet soup of international agencies, conferences, and programs, but over the course of the next two

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on December 10, 2007. On that day, a committee of the Norwegian parliament awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly to Al Gore and to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC. “We must begin by making the common rescue of the global environment the central organizing principle of the world community,” said Gore in his

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