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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was formed by the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organisation in 1988 to provide authoritative scientific information on climate change. Since its inception the IPCC has reported with increasing urgency on the threat that climate change poses to the planet.
Their latest reports, published earlier this year, paint a grim picture of life in a warming world, and describe the measures that are needed to fight it, for which only the political will is missing.
Highlights:
The new science assessment ups the predictions of the last report in 1995, almost doubling the top end of the temperature increase projected over the next 100 years to 6 degrees Celsius. The report also projects more extreme events such as storms, floods and droughts, as a consequence of increased emissions of greenhouse gases.
- 20th century trends of increasing temperature, sea-level rise, and increased precipitation will continue and intensify in the 21st century;
- the anticipated increase in temperature over this century has increased from a range of 1 - 3.5
