World-News

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



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

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

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

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

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

Climate Panel Issues Urgent Warning
http://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...

http://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.

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



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