Archive for the 'Climate' Category

IPCC releases report

2nd 2007f February, 2007, Peter

The IPCC has released the report from the meeting in Paris this week, according to this BBC report. Key statement:
“The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said temperatures were probably going to increase by 1.8-4C (3.2-7.2F) by the end of the century.
It also projected that sea levels were most likely to rise [...]

Political science in the USA

31st 2007f January, 2007, Peter

A survey of US Government scientists has found almost half have come under pressure from Bush administration officials to eliminate words like “climate change” and “global warming” from their reports, and reported no fewer than 435 instances of political interference in their work over the last 5 years. It is hard to [...]

Monbiot on Bush

30th 2007f January, 2007, Peter

British environmental campaigner and journalist, George Monbiot, is sceptical of the US Administration’s supposed change of heart on climate change:
“George Bush proposes to deal with climate change by means of smoke and mirrors. So what’s new? Only that it is no longer just a metaphor. After six years of obfuscation and denial, the US now [...]

IPCC 2007 update

29th 2007f January, 2007, Peter

Further to the post below, the IPCC site has details of the report on the latest conclusions on the physical science of climate change, to be released on this coming Friday 2007-02-02.
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IPCC 2007

28th 2007f January, 2007, Peter

The first meeting in 6 years of the IPCC - the UN-sponsored Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change - will take place in Paris this coming week. Apparently, scientists reporting to the meeting have updated their probality that global warming is caused by human activities from 66% at the last IPCC meeting to 90% now. [...]