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Category Archives: Assessments of Climate Impacts and Adaptation
Climate Science Watch guide to climate reports
The sheer number, depth, and breadth of the climate science assessments and U.S. government program reports released each year can be daunting, so we prepared an annotated guide to clarify the distinctions among some of the key reports: State of … Continue reading
NRC: emissions choices today have implications for global climate on the scale of millennia
Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts Over Decades to Millennia, a new report released by the National Research Council (the operational arm of the National Academy of Sciences) on July 16, starkly highlights the long-term global consequences of present-day … Continue reading
IPCC, key target of war on climate science, announces 831 experts to author Fifth Assessment Report
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has announced its selection of 831 authors and review editors for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report to be published in 2013-2014. In light of the denial machine’s war on climate science, which seeks to … Continue reading
AMS Climate Briefing Series takes on national security implications of climate change
On June 4 CSW was on Capitol Hill attending an American Meteorological Society (AMS) briefing – part of the Climate Briefing Series – on Climate Change and National Security. The event featured Rear Admiral David Titley, Oceanographer and Navigator of … Continue reading
InterAcademy Council Names IPCC Review Committee
The InterAcademy Council (IAC), an organization of the world’s science academies, announced May 3 that Harold T. Shapiro, an economist and former president of Princeton University and the University of Michigan, will chair a 12-member committee to conduct an independent … Continue reading
U.S. National Climate Change Assessment strategic planning kicks off in Chicago meeting
The National Climate Assessment Strategic Planning Meeting held in Chicago from February 24-25 was part of the initial planning phase for the reactivation of the U.S. National Assessment of Climate Change Impacts. The first National Assessment was completed in 2000, … Continue reading
Open Letter to the U.S. Government from U.S. Scientists on climate change and the IPCC reports
America, pay attention. On March 12, “An Open Letter from Scientists in the United States on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Errors Contained in the Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007,” will be delivered to U.S. federal agencies. … Continue reading
World Wildlife Fund statement on the IPCC and WWF’s scientific work
The World Wildlife Fund has issued a statement on the results of the organization’s inquiry into statements about Himalayan glaciers and the climate change threat in the Amazon attributed to WWF in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change impacts … Continue reading
Questions to an IPCC co-chair on ensuring the credibility of IPCC leadership and communications
We asked Christopher Field, co-chair of IPCC Working Group II on Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability: To counter the effort by the global warming disinformation campaign to discredit and delegitimize the IPCC, how will the IPCC ensure that the public and … Continue reading
Worldwide glacier melt a real concern; Himalaya controversy leaves questions about IPCC leadership
The IPCC on January 20 officially acknowledged “poorly substantiated rates of recession and date for the disappearance of Himalayan glaciers.” The controversy over the erroneous paragraph in the IPCC Working Group II Fourth Assessment Report should not overshadow the large … Continue reading
