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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a scientific intergovernmental body first established in 1988 by two United Nations organizations, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and later endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly through Resolution 43/53. Its mission is to provide comprehensive scientific assessments of current scientific, technical and socio-economic information worldwide about the risk of climate change caused by human activity, its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences, and possible options for adapting to these consequences or mitigating the effects.
Read More at Wikipedia ›DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) — The European Space Agency launched a new high-tech satellite Thursday to measure the effects of global warming on Earth's polar ice and gather data on rising sea levels, information that could prove crucial to millions on the globe's coasts and islands.
ESA said at its European Space Operations Center in Germany Thursday it received a signal from CryoSat 2 after it took off on a Russian launcher rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan , meaning lift-off was successful."So far, everything went fantastically," said Volker Liebig, ESA Director for Earth Observation Programs.In 2005, ESA lost its first CryoSat when the launcher rocket failed, causing a five-year-delay of the mission, which has been eagerly awaited by glacial scientists since the late 1990s."If anything, this mission is even more important now than a decade ago when we first proposed it," as changes in Earth's polar ice sheets are accelerating, said Duncan Wingham of University College Lon...The world's top scientific body concluded that renewable energy in the coming decades will be widespread and could one day represent the dominant source for powering...
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WASHINGTON -- The Nobel Prize-winning international scientific panel studying global warming is seeking independent outside review for how it makes major reports.The...
Al Gore's defense of global-warming hysteria in Sunday's New York Times has many flaws, but I'll focus on just one whopper -- where the "Inconvenient Truth" man stat...
As the Copenhagen climate conference drew to a close Friday, Czech President Vaclav Klaus , long a global warming skeptic, had a message for the world: do not dictat...
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago -- Caribbean nations face "very, very scary" rises in sea level and intensifying hurricanes, and Florida, Louisiana and even north...
A Republican lawmaker is calling for an investigation into whether a U.N. panel "cooked the science" on climate change following the publication of more than 1,000 p...
Recent scandals involving the IPCC have undercut its creditability to such an extent that the nation of India plans to look for an independent assessment.According t...
Two Government advertisements which used nursery rhymes to raise awareness of climate change have been banned for overstating the risks.The adverts, from the Departm...
The head of a panel of United Nations climate scientists said Saturday he would not resign despite a recent admission that a panel report warning Himalayan glaciers ...
Scientists have been forced to retract a paper that claimed sea level were rising thanks to the effects of global warming, after mistakes were discovered that underm...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A leading Dutch environmental agency, taking the blame for one of the glaring errors that undermined the credibility of a seminal U.N. ...
AMSTERDAM (AP) — A dozen eminent scientists began reviewing the work of the Nobel-winning U.N. science body on climate change Friday, determined to eliminate errors ...
CHICAGO -- Global warming advocates say r ising sea levels will soon drown Venice. But a top scientist says they're full of hot air -- and he says he’s got the data ...
As the United Nations meets for the umpteenth time this week -- this time in Cancun, Mexico -- in its ongoing effort to confront climate change, there is a growing c...
Most people have never heard of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), but it performs one of the most important jobs in the world. It surveys the sci...
The world's top scientific body concluded that renewable energy in the coming decades will be widespread and could one day represent the dominant source for powering...
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