IPCC ISSUES COMPREHENSIVE REPORT ON SCIENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
On February 2, 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
released a summary of the current science of climate change. The summary,
directed at policymakers, is based on six years of review of scientific
literature by experts from around the world, convened under the auspices of the
IPCC's Working Group I. The report calls the evidence of climate warming
"unequivocal." The report finds that rates of both observed warming and sea
level rise have accelerated over the past century, and discusses other important
changes being observed, including more intense precipitation in some regions,
prolonged droughts in others, and intensification of hurricanes in some tropical
regions.
Read the Pew Center's coverage of the report:
http://ealert.pewclimate.org/ctt.asp?u=4237323&l=136622
Pew Center's summary of the report (93 KB pdf):
http://ealert.pewclimate.org/ctt.asp?u=4237323&l=136623
Pew Center statement on the report:
http://ealert.pewclimate.org/ctt.asp?u=4237323&l=136624
Facts and Figures:
http://ealert.pewclimate.org/ctt.asp?u=4237323&l=136625
"Sea Level Rise - The State of the Science", a new Pew Center fact sheet:
http://ealert.pewclimate.org/ctt.asp?u=4237323&l=136626
Hurricanes and Global Warming Q&A:
http://ealert.pewclimate.org/ctt.asp?u=4237323&l=136627
