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...world has unquestionably begun. Worldwide temperatures have climbed more than .5?C over the past century, and the 1990s were the hottest decade on record. After analyzing data going back at least two decades on everything from air and ocean temperatures to the spread and retreat of wildlife, the IPCC asserts that this slow but steady warming has had an impact on no fewer than 420 physical processes and animal and plant species on all continents...
...past few weeks have marked a milestone in the fight to combat global warming. On Feb. 19, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the most authoritative scientific voice on global warming, officially released the most comprehensive report to date on existing and long-term effects of global climate change. The outlook does not seem promising...
Next to the 1000-page IPCC assessment, the last few weeks were also filled with media reports of anecdotal evidence--extreme weather events that are projected to become more frequent as overall temperatures rise. Most notably, Mt. Kilimanjaro's ice cap, which has towered for millennia over Kenya and Tanzania's plains, is now melting and is expected to disappear within 15 years. Kilimanjaro is not alone in losing its snows--glaciers from the Alps to the Andes will disappear at a frightening rate--but the Kilimanjaro ice cap has been a valuable source of water for the surrounding areas...
...recent report was released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an organization that works under the auspices of the U.N. but is run by independent scientists and receives its money directly from participating governments...
...attention to the conference, its failure to reach a conclusion might have a larger impact on the well-being of the average American and citizens around the world than the outcome of the legal battles in the Sunshine state. Shortly before the conference, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the most authoritative body on global warming, issued a preliminary summary of its 2000 report saying that humans "contributed substantially to the observed warming over the last 50 years." This is a much stronger language than the wording used in its report five years ago, when humans were considered...