BALI, Indonesia (CNN) --The United States made a dramatic reversal Saturday, first rejecting and then accepting a compromise to set the stage for intense negotiations in the next two years aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions worldwide ( Read more... )

The Associated Press, in covering the IPCC AR4 Synthesis Report, starts out

"Global warming is "unequivocal" and carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere
commits the world to an average rise in sea levels of up to 4.6 feet...

They continue,

According to the U.N. panel of scientists, whose latest report is a synthesis of three previous ones, ( Read more... )

To start, unless you never turned on a television,
or picked up a newspaper this week, as you already know...

From Forecast Earth:

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but still sends a powerful message -

"Agreement came after an all-night session during which key sections were deleted from the draft and scientists angrily confronted government negotiators who they feared were watering down their findings."

"Several scientists objected to the editing of the final draft by government negotiators but in the end ( Read more... )

Weather.com's sister sight, ONE °, has just been updated with numerous added user-friendly features and interfaces.

Timely upgrade to the website famous for climate news, information and debate, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC as it is often referred to, releases it's much anticipated second of four reports this Friday ( Read more... )

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...The gold-standard Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report represents "a real convergence happening here, a consensus that this is a total global no-brainer," says U.S. climate scientist Jerry Mahlman, former director of the federal government's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in New Jersey ( Read more... )

"Eiffel Tower to switch off lights as scientists
finish major report on global warmingAP - 00:30GMT ( Read more... )

-Today (Tuesday)-
"Hearing Will Question Political Influence on Government Climate Change ScientistsThe Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on January 30 regarding political interference in the work of government climate change scientists. In preparation for the hearing, Chairman Waxman and Ranking Member Davis have requested documents from the ( Read more... )

Just few days left until the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases it's fourth, and some say, most dire draft. Even with that presumption, many are crying foul, accusing the IPCC of being overly true to it's nature as a large, bureaucratic organization made up of many of the most influential nations, several of which also happen to be ( Read more... )