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Climate Panel Confident Warming Is Underway
Summary from United States, from articles in English
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Kevin Trenberth of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was online Tuesday, Jan. 13, to discuss the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report and testimony before Congress. (article 5)
The newest international assessment of the consequences of Earth's warming climate has concluded with "high confidence" that human-generated greenhouse gases are already triggering changes in ecosystems on land and sea across the globe. (article 3)
The second working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was charged with tracking the impact of global warming on specific regions and species, plans to release its final report tomorrow in Brussels. (article 3)
An international panel of climate scientists said yesterday that there is an overwhelming probability that human activities are warming the planet at a dangerous rate, with consequences that could soon take decades or centuries to reverse. (article 4)
Declaring that "warming of the climate system is unequivocal the authors said in their" Summary for Policymakers " that even in the best-case scenario, temperatures are on track to cross a threshold to an unsustainable level. (article 4)
That is the majority view of scientists trying to solve an equation whose variables range from greenhouse gas concentrations and the El Nino weather pattern to mosquito ecology and human cells' ability to withstand heat. (article 2)
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Climate, warming, degrees, IPCC, Fahrenheit |
Source articles
- Warming Imperils Md. Species (Washington Post, 05/11/2008, 513 words)
- As Temperatures Rise, Health Could Decline (Washington Post, 05/12/2008, 470 words)
- Climate Panel Confident Warming Is Underway (Washington Post, 05/12/2008, 893 words)
- Humans Faulted for Global Warming (Washington Post, 05/12/2008, 665 words)
- Science: Global Warming and the Government (Washington Post, 05/13/2008, 130 words)
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