Sunday, November 18, 2007

Growth Of Carbon Emissions Must End in 7 Years, U.N. Warns

Sunday, November 18, 2007
The world will have to end its growth of carbon emissions within seven years and become mostly free of carbon-emitting technologies in about four decades to avoid killing as many as a quarter of the planet's species from global warming, according to top United Nations' scientists...
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WashingtonPost.com website

>>> Time.com has this take on the story...
The language of science, like that of the United Nations, is by nature cautious and measured. That makes the dire tone of the just-released final report from the fourth assessment of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a network of thousands of international scientists, all the more striking. Global warming is "unequivocal." Climate change will bring "abrupt and irreversible changes." The report, a synthesis for politicians culled from three other IPCC panels convened throughout the year, read like what it is: a final warning to humanity...
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A Last Warning on Global Warming

>>> TheAge.com.au has this report...
The findings of the latest global report on climate change demonstrate Australia must act now to prevent devastating effects of global warming, Labor says... The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) overnight handed down a summary of its three previous reports on global warming, issuing its most stark warning yet on its impact and urging politicians to immediately tackle the threat...
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We must act now on warming: Garrett

>>> Here’s the UN’s News Service take on all of this...
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has challenged the world's policymakers to start devising a comprehensive deal for tackling climate change at next month's summit in Bali, Indonesia, after a United Nations report released today found that global warming is unequivocal and could cause irreversible damage to the planet... Launching the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which brings together hundreds of scientific experts, Mr. Ban said that slowing and even reversing the effects of climate change “is the defining challenge of our age.”...
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Ban Ki-moon urges climate change breakthrough in Bali after dire report released

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