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The head of the UN’s Nobel-winning panel of climate scientists on Friday said only seven years remained for stabilising emissions of global-warming gases at a level widely considered safe.Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), delivered the bleak warning at a gathering of European Union ministers where he pleaded with the […]

The U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research has released a scientific assessment that provides the first comprehensive analysis of observed and projected changes in weather and climate extremes in North America and U.S. territories. Among the major findings reported in this assessment are that droughts, heavy downpours, excessive heat, […]

Business should be thinking about the response to climate change not as a threat but as an opportunity, says Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chairman Rajendra Pachauri.The IPCC is the United Nations body whose task is to report to governments every five years or so on the state of science on climate change, its environmental […]

In 1998, Dr. Arthur Robinson, Director of the Oregon Institute for Science and Medicine, posted his first Global Warming skeptic petition, on the Institute’s website (oism.org). It quickly attracted the signatures of more than 17,000 Americans who held college degrees in science. Widely known as the Oregon Petition, it became a counter-weight for the “all […]

Global warming is hitting the Arctic harder and faster than scientists expected, causing unforeseen changes to the frigid region’s ice, wildlife, atmosphere and oceans, the conservation group WWF said.The most prominent differences observed over the last three years include a “massively accelerated” decline in summer sea ice and “much greater” shrinking of the Greenland Ice […]

On Friday, April 18, U.S. Governors and top state-level environmental officials will meet at Yale University to exchange ideas on how the state and the federal governments can develop a strategy for future action and combat global warming.

“This is the first time such a prestigious group of state officials have come together to have […]

Rich countries are failing to set a good example for developing countries on tackling climate, the head of the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change has said.
According to Rajendra Pachauri, many developed countries have failed to lead the way and do what is necessary to make the developing nations commit to a new global […]

The Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has agreed to put out its next major assessment report by 2014, the body’s chairman Rajendra Pachauri said Thursday. The IPCC’s previous report was largely responsible for last year’s award of the Peace Prize, which the organization shared with former US vice president Al Gore […]

Gone are the days when people would be thrilled with the first drops of rains after a scorching summer. Rains have now become a common occurrence throughout the year. Gone also are the days when parents could adequately protect their children from seasonal variations. Parents then knew the seasonal cycle and every season was welcomed.But […]

Rising sea levels and surges from intensifying storms pose a growing threat to the nation’s roads, railways, harbors and airports, according to a new report from the National Research Council. The federally funded study calls on government and industry planners to start factoring climate change into transportation system design.One hundred thousand kilometers of U.S. coastal […]