IPCC Archive

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  How the IPCC works

  
  
  
  In some circles the IPCC is dismissed as “alarmist” or fuelling a left-wing conspiracy to “de-industrialise” modern society. I would have thought that the world’s largest collection international experts would have been the a pretty reliable place to get hard facts from, but maybe that’s just me… Perhaps some insight into how the IPCC works will put [...] read more
  November 12, 2009 5:51 pm - 6 Comments
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  An update on climate change, from the UN

  
  
  
  As an update to the latest IPCC report from the UN, they’ve released the Climate Change Science Compendium 2009. It “is a review of some 400 major scientific contributions to our understanding of Earth Systems and climate that have been released through peer-reviewed literature or from research institutions over the last three years”. A lot has [...] read more
  October 19, 2009 2:20 pm - 32 Comments
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  Green MPs Support 350 Challenge

  
  
  
  Green MPs support Bill McKibben’s campaign to reduce carbon in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million, down from the current 389 ppm which is going up every year.  Scientists believe this would keep the global temperature rise to less than 2C. Meanwhile, the NACT government struggles with denial.  National’s “target” is a 50% reduction by [...] read more
  June 9, 2009 7:00 am - 42 Comments
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  Water vapour research validates climate models

  
  
  
  For those who wish to deny the climate science outright, you have just lost another straw man. For those who wish to engage with the science, acknowledging its limitations, this latest research is for you. The sceptics love to bash on about how water vapour is the real greenhouse culprit, how climate scientists ignore it and [...] read more
  November 20, 2008 10:07 am - 74 Comments
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  The carbon report – we’re certainly not running out

  
  
  
  Last Thursday, the Global Carbon Project released its annual report on the state of the carbon cycle, Carbon Budget 2007 [pdf]. And the news is that carbon dioxide emissions are up 3 percent for 2007 Dot Earth commented: More than half of global emissions, which totalled more than 34 billion tons of CO2 in 2007, are now [...] read more
  September 30, 2008 8:19 am - 2 Comments
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  Climate change – 10 simple facts

  
  
  
  There’s a nice little summary of global warming facts here at Good: 2005 was the warmest year ever recorded, closely followed by 1998 and 2007. Twelve of the 13 warmest years on record were between 1995 and 2007. The reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are based on the peer-reviewed, published work [...] read more
  August 14, 2008 11:48 am - 45 Comments
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  Pachauri: ‘please read the science’

  
  
  
  World Environment Day has bought the head of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Rajendra Pachauri, to New Zealand.  Pachauri is moving the IPCC beyond stating the science in ways that have allowed climate change deniers to obfuscate and confuse the message.  He is now using much plainer language.  Famously, this now widely [...] read more
  June 5, 2008 8:34 am - 13 Comments
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  Can the media cover climate change?

  
  
  
  There is an interesting debate going about whether the media can and is reporting climate change effectively. The Committee for Sceptical Inquiry notes of news coverage in America: according to data tracked by the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism, climate change failed to crack the top twenty most covered news stories of the year. Even [...] read more
  March 6, 2008 3:29 pm - 7 Comments
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  What the IPCC couldn’t tell us this year

  
  
  
  By all accounts, the IPCC’s report this year was its starkest warning yet about the risks we face from climate change. What they couldn’t tell us, despite almost everyone in the room being aware of it, was that more up to date research was available showing that the climate is changing faster than all their [...] read more
  November 30, 2007 12:13 pm - 46 Comments
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  Kiwi scientists hold their own at the IPCC

  
  
  
  Congratulations to the scientists representing New Zealand at last week’s IPCC conference for not getting all political and sticking to the science. Even on the topic of methane emissions, where NZ is most vulnerable, the Kiwis held their ground and stuck to the numbers. In several areas they helped prevent attempts by some of the [...] read more
  November 21, 2007 9:59 am - 9 Comments