Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
description: an international body established by the United Nations to assess the science related to climate change
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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 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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unbanked population, 191–92, 194–95 underwriting, 183 unemployment, technology and, 108, 227–30 United Kingdom, zero-carbon energy in, 217 United Nations, 199–200 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of, 212, 227, 241 United States, Jewish flight from Nazi Germany to, 238–39 United Therapeutics, 16–17 Unity Biotechnology, 176 Universal Robots, 47 Urbach
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
When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
by Suzanne Simard; · 30 Mar 2026 · 430pp · 111,698 words
that a warming planet posed a threat to life on Earth. Eventually, they realized they needed to use blunter language. In 2014, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report saying that unchecked greenhouse gas emissions would trigger severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts. In 2019, a group of eleven thousand scientists from
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Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Core writing team, H. Lee and J. Romero. IPCC. https://doi.org/10.59327/IPCC/AR6-9789291691647. Ke, P., Ciais, P., Sitch, S., et al. (2024). Low latency carbon budget analysis reveals a
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on Climate Change (2014): Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Core writing team, R. K. Pachauri and L. A. Meyer. IPCC. Geneva, Switzerland. International Panel on Climate Change. (2019). Special Report on Climate Change and Land. August
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. IPCC. https://www.ipcc/ch/srccl/. International Panel on Climate Change. (2022). Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Edited by H.-O. Pörtner, D. C. Roberts, M. Tignor
How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World’s Last Developmental Frontier
by Joe Studwell · 6 Dec 2025 · 393pp · 148,223 words
USAID, MCC was not defunded by Donald Trump’s second administration. 16 United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Fifth Assessment Report (2015) and Sixth Assessment Report (2023), available at https://www.ipcc.ch/assessment-report/ar5/ and https://www.ipcc.ch/assessment-report/ar6/. The Fifth Assessment Report noted: ‘Most areas of Africa lack sufficient
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data to draw conclusions about trends in annual rainfall over the past century.’ 17 United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Fifth Assessment Report and Sixth Assessment
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, 223 slavery and 37 subsidies 6, 50, 83–4, 307 urban infrastructure costs 43 water supplies and 43 Institute for Security Studies, South Africa 45 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 316, 399n internal combustion engine 4 International Finance Corp 320 International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) 241, 250, 251, 261, 311 International Labour Organisation (ILO
After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People
by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso · 7 Jul 2025 · 264pp · 96,174 words
not be in first grade by the 2030 milestones laid out by climate-focused institutions like the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). By 2040, they’ll be teens. By the 2050 milestones set by the IPCC, humanity ought to be achieving net-zero emissions. The cohort born in 2025 will still be younger than
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, 13, 206, 207 Thich Nhat Hanh, 157 Thomson, Judith Jarvis, 175 tungsten, childhood fear of shortage, 100 Uganda, 49 United Kingdom, 35 United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 61 start date of population data by, 33 timetable for global peak population, 12 World Population Prospects projections, 12, 275n United States abortion in, 214
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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Gas Emission Pathways, in the Context of Strengthening the Global Response to the Threat of Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Efforts to Eradicate Poverty, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2018, https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/SR15_Full_Report_High_Res.pdf. 25. Liz Kalaugher, “Scientist or Climate Activist—Where’s
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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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. Glavovic, Jochen Hinkel et al., “Sea Level Rise and Implications for Low-Lying Islands, Coasts and Communities,” in IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2019, https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/3/2019/11/08_SROCC_Ch04_FINAL.pdf, 321–445. 50. Clionadh Raleigh
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Barros, Thomas F. Stocker et al., eds., Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation: Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/SREX_Full_Report-1.pdf, 9. 77. Roger Pielke, Jr., The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won
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. Bindoff, William W. L. Cheung, James G. Kairo et al., “Changing Ocean, Marine Ecosystems, and Dependent Communities,” in IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2019, https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/3/2019/11/09_SROCC_Ch05_FINAL-1.pdf. 72. The State of
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Association, https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/MethaneMatter. Gunnar Mhyre and Drew Shindell, “Anthropogenic and Natural Radiative Forcing,” in Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2013, 659–740, http://www.climatechange2013.org/images/report/WG1AR5_Chapter08_FINAL.pdf. Most of the methane molecules that leak into the atmosphere today won
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. Harold T. Shapiro, Roseanne Diab, Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, et al., Climate Change Assessments: Review of the Processes and Procedures of the IPCC, Committee to Review the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, October 2010, http://reviewipcc.interacademycouncil.net/report/Climate%20Change%20Assessments,%20Review%20of%20the%20Processes%20&%20Procedures%20of%20the%20IPCC.pdf. 25. Christopher Flavelle
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die-off, 195–96 Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics, 195 Intensive farming, 38, 39, 42–43, 130–31, 135–36, 139 InterAcademy Council, 255–56 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 114, 284–85 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, xiii, 1–6, 10, 11–12, 14, 15–16, 23, 30, 126–27, 128, 244, 252, 253–57 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform
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–46 International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 57, 59, 67, 76 International Whaling Commission (IWC), 113 Inuits, 109 “Invasive species,” 66 Invenergy, 207 IPCC. See Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Iran, 173–74 Ireland Great Potato Famine, 231–32, 233 Iroquois Indians, 110 Israel, 173–74 Ivanpah Solar Farm, 188, 189, 197 Jackson, Kathleen, 155
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Scientists, 162–63 United Nations Chernobyl nuclear disaster, 149 family planning, 241 Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), xiii, 6, 13, 121, 129–30, 228 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. See Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sustainable development model, 226 United Nations Earth Summit (1992), 29 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 48, 190 United Nations General Assembly, Eisenhower’s Atoms for
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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
Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex
by Rupert Darwall · 2 Oct 2017 · 451pp · 115,720 words
United States out of all proportion to its eight million people. From the late 1960s through to the late 1980s and the establishment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which, far more than any other nation, has the rightful claim to paternity (Chapter 11), Sweden was extraordinarily successful at projecting environmental diplomacy on the
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potential impacts of climate change. Representatives of WMO and UNEP member states were invited to a meeting in Geneva in November 1988 to establish an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. By then, preparations were already under way for a climate conference to be held in Toronto in June 1988 immediately following the G7 summit that
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. 10Swedish Government proposition 1975/76: No. 30 cited in Bert Bolin, A History of the Science and Politics of Climate Change: The Role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Cambridge, 2007), p. 33. 11SAP, Programme of the Swedish Social Democratic Party Adopted by the 1975 Congress, p. 18. 12OKG-Aktuellt, April 29, 1975. 13Ibid
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Politics (New York, 2002), p. 192. 17Ibid., p. 192. 18Bert Bolin, A History of the Science and Politics of Climate Change: The Role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Cambridge, 2007), p. 31. 19Ibid., p. 35. 20Ibid., p. 36. 21John W. Zillman, “Climate Science and Public Policy: Some Observations from Early Years at the
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Science-Policy Interface,” Unpublished manuscript, p. 12. 22Bert Bolin, A History of the Science and Politics of Climate Change: The Role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Cambridge, 2007), p. 38 and http://www.scopenvironment.org/downloadpubs/scope29/statement.html (accessed July 25, 2015). 23John Maunder, “Climate Change and Villach: What is
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_legacygg_folder_090424_final.pdf (accessed August 7, 2015). 27Bert Bolin, A History of the Science and Politics of Climate Change: The Role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Cambridge, 2007), p. 39. 28Ibid., p. 44. 29John W. Zillman, “Climate Science and Public Policy: Some Observations from Early Years at the Science-Policy Interface
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, p. 12. 30Bert Bolin, A History of the Science and Politics of Climate Change: The Role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Cambridge, 2007), p. 39. Emphasis in the original. 31John W. Zillman, “Some Observations of the IPCC Assessment Process 1988–2007,” Energy and Environment, Vol. 18, No. 7–8, p. 871. 32Bert Bolin, A
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History of the Science and Politics of Climate Change: The Role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Cambridge, 2007), p. 49. 33WMO/UNEP, Developing Policies for Responding
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, “Terrestrial and Inland Water Systems.” In: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Cambridge and New York), p. 327. 43Clive Hambler, “Where Eagles Dare—the Wind Farms Gamble,” Wild Land News, No. 83 (June 2013), p. 10. 44Clive
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pricing of IG Farben Leuna facility IG Metall Industrial Revolution Institute for Social Research (Institut für Sozialforschung) Institute of Global Environment and Society Intel Corporation Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) establishment of Fifth Assessment Report First Assessment Report Working Group III Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987) signing of International Council for Science (ICSU
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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IEA. see International Energy Agency (IEA) IGCC. see integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) Indonesia peatland fires, 86 integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC), 209–210 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 20, 80 on agricultural sector effects of climate change, 127, 128 on Arctic ice cap, 18–19 on biochar, 246 on biodiversity, 122 on climate
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energy, 199–200 on pumped storage, 244–245 on solar power, 204 on wind power, 207–208 investment(s) climate change effects on, 258–259 IPCC. see Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “irreversible impacts” climate change and, 140–145 described, 141–142 Dust-Bowlification, 143 reversal of, 142–143 sea-level rise, 143 Islamic State
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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 World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future
by Laurence C. Smith · 22 Sep 2010 · 421pp · 120,332 words
lined up behind it. It figures prominently in all of our biggest blueprints for reducing greenhouse gases, including model scenarios of the Stern Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the International Energy Agency projections outlined above. CCS is embraced by Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, Gordon Brown, and other leaders of the G8. It
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. Such numbers are two to five times preindustrial levels. IPCC AR4 Synthesis Report, Table 3.1. (Full reference IPCC Fourth Assessment Report [AR4], Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report, Contribution of Working Groups I, II, and III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Core Writing Team, R. K. Pachauri, A. Reisinger (eds
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reason for this is that hurricanes and typhoons are fueled by sea surface temperatures. The Fourth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates their intensity is “likely” to increase, meaning a >66% statistical probability. IPCC AR4 (2007). 263 Calculated from Table 2 of R. J. Nicholls et al., “Ranking Port Cities with High Exposure
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2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007). See Chapter 1 for more on the IPCC Assessment Reports. 278 These outcomes are called SRES scenarios, of which three are shown here (i.e
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slow technological change. For more, see N. Nakicenovic, R. Swart, eds., Special Report on Emissions Scenarios: A Special Report of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 570 pp. 279 The three SRES scenarios shown, which I have renamed for clarity, are B1, A1B, and A2
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full reference). Climate-change projection maps presented in Chapter Five were modified by permission of the IPCC, Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Figure 10.8, Cambridge University Press. Please note that the modifications made to these maps (“optimistic
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