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IPCC Final Report: Climate Change Urgency

United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has published its fourth report, a synthesis of data from three previous reports.

While the United States, Saudi Arabia and China tried to change the text in order to play down the consequences of global warming, developing nations — which will bear the initial brunt of climate change — were much more forceful than at previous meetings in opposing these efforts, one scientist who was in the negotiating room said.

"I suspect that will continue,” he said. “As they feel more and more threatened by the sea and the storms they will insist that, as one of them put it, ‘We do not want this report to be warm and fuzzy when the reality is cold and risky,’ or something like that,” he said.

Link to the full Fourth Assessment Report]

jon posted this at 3:40 PM
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