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According to yesterday's UN report, the world will be a much hotter place by 2100. This will be the impact ...

https://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/312/2/

https://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2211568.ece


Informant: binstock

Climate Report - url for pdf
https://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf



Humans caused climate change'
Global warming likely to continue for centuries, international body says.
https://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2004757,00.html

Audio: 'This study is critical'
https://download.guardian.co.uk/sys-audio/Guardian/audio/2007/02/02/Adam.mp3

Fossil fuel and land use to blame
https://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2004746,00.html

Sea levels rise at accelerating rate
https://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2004717,00.html

Oil lobby tried to undermine study
https://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2004398,00.html

Climate Panel Issues Urgent Warning
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/science/earth/02cnd-climate.html


Informant: binstock

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IPCC releases report

San Diego Union-Tribune

02/02/07

Scientists from 113 countries issued a landmark report Friday saying they have little doubt global warming is caused by man, and predicting that hotter temperatures and rises in sea level will 'continue for centuries' no matter how much humans control their pollution. A top U.S. government scientist, Susan Solomon, said 'there can be no question that the increase in greenhouse gases are dominated by human activities.' Environmental campaigners urged the United States and other industrial nations to significantly cut their emissions of greenhouse gases in response to the long-awaited report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...

https://tinyurl.com/2xzpjg


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Panel Sees Centuries of Warming Due to Humans

The world is already committed to centuries of warming, shifting weather patterns, and rising seas from the atmospheric buildup of smokestack and tailpipe gases that trap heat, but warming can be substantially blunted with prompt action, an international network of climate experts said today.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020207F.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=climate+change

The UN climate panel agreed in its starkest warning yet on Thursday that human activities are causing global warming that may bring more droughts, heat waves and rising seas, delegates said.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020107T.shtml



Slow Going on Global Warming Report

A report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, if it is issued on time Friday, will warn the world that global warming is here and worsening, using its bluntest language yet.

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020107EA.shtml



A Q&A With Ross and Anne Gelbspan

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ross Gelbspan and his wife Anne talk about getting the message of climate change out through film, public opinion, American journalism - and about what really needs to be done.

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020107EB.shtml

Global warming could turn Australia's Great Barrier Reef into a wasteland of bleached coral in 25 years, says a scientific report leaked yesterday.

https://tinyurl.com/39bxm3

https://www.jungewelt.de/2007/01-30/017.php



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Klimaschutz

While climate change dominates the news, Jean-Marcel Bouguereau suggests that it's not just business leaders at Davos, but also French citizens who are not yet prepared to do anything concrete about it. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, although "Conservative" Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper has begun to make green noises, a recently publicized letter he wrote in 2002 describing Kyoto as a "Socialist plot" undermines his environmental credibility.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020107H.shtml