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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online An early draft of the forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been leaked online by an environmental blogger, despite requests from the UN-body that the contents of the document remain sealed until their official release in 2014. According to Science Recorder reporter Jessica Lear, part of the report was published online by Alec Rawls, a global warming skeptic who created the blog Stop Green Suicide....
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Reports claiming that the climate change has caused global drought conditions to intensify over the past several decades are flawed and based on faulty calculations, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal Nature. According to Anna Salleh of ABC News Australia the researchers report in their study that the 2007 4th Assessment Report (AR4) by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) "overestimated"...
The small number of scientists who are unconvinced that human beings have contributed significantly to climate change have far less expertise and prominence in climate research compared with scientists who are convinced, according to a study led by Stanford researchers.In a quantitative assessment "“ the first of its kind to address this issue "“ the team analyzed the number of research papers published by more than 900 climate researchers and the number of times their work was cited by...
AÂ UN climate panel is reconsidering its claim that there is a connection between global warming and a flux of natural disasters, a British newspaper reported on Sunday.This is not the first mistake to be made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Just last week, it acknowledged mistakes in a forecast about melting Himalayan glaciers in a 2007 landmark report, reported AFP.That Nobel Peace Prize winning report has become the standard in climate science, but doubts have...
The World Wildlife Fund and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature received a $2 million grant for climate change strategies. The grant is to be used to develop a new Ecosystems and Livelihoods Adaptation Network to serve as a resource for conservation groups, governments, international agencies and others working to make vulnerable ecosystems more resilient, and help human communities adapt sensibly to changing climate, the MacArthur Foundation said Tuesday in a news...
Some 2,000 scientists contributed to the Nobel Peace Prize-winning IPCC report on global warming. Next week, the local contingent will be honored.On the wall of Professor Kirk Smith's office in the School of Public Health hangs an embossed certificate honoring his contributions to the United Nations' Nobel Peace Prize-winning climate-change organization.Because of his groundbreaking work on the deleterious health effects of air pollution caused by indoor cooking and heating fuels around the...
By Patricia ReaneyNORWICH -- Countries should prepare policies to adapt to climate change as well as efforts to lessen its impact, a leading British economist said on Monday."Adaptation policies have had far less attention than mitigation, and that is a mistake," Frances Cairncross, the chair of Britain's Economic and Social research council, told a conference.The rector of Exeter College in Oxford and president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA) believes...
By Gerard Wynn COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) - Global temperatures may be increasing more quickly than first thought, and evidence is stronger that humans are causing the rise, the World Bank's Chief Scientist Robert Watson told Reuters on Thursday. Scientists widely accept that climate change is happening and could cause more extreme weather, global warming and rising sea levels. But the scale of change and its cause are hotly contested, as blocs of countries including Europe and the...
By Gerard WynnCOLOGNE, Germany -- Global temperatures may be increasing more quickly than first thought, and evidence is stronger that humans are causing the rise, the World Bank's Chief Scientist Robert Watson told Reuters on Thursday.Scientists widely accept that climate change is happening and could cause more extreme weather, global warming and rising sea levels.But the scale of change and its cause are hotly contested, as blocs of countries including Europe and the United States are...
