Climate Science
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The UNFCCC negotiations over issues such as mitigation and adaptation are heavily informed by climate science. The most widely accepted authoritative, consensus science on the subject of climate change is published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is formally charged with supporting the UNFCCC. The most recent comprehensive IPCC report, the Fourth Assessment Report was issued in 2007 and won a Nobel Prize. The next assessment is due in 2012.
Recently, UNEP, one of the parent organizations of the IPCC, published an interim assessment, called the Climate Change Science Compendium, and a large ad-hoc group of IPCC scientists published a parallel report, the Copenhagen Diagnosis.
Within the United States the most widely accepted climate science assessments are published by the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). A comprehensive and detailed assessment of the impacts of climate change in the United States was published by the USGCRP in June 2009. The June report, Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States, also presents detailed projections for future impacts under different emission scenarios, broken down by region.
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UNEP Climate Change Science Compendium 2009 - October 28, 2009
“The Climate Change Science Compendium 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, since the close of research for consideration by the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.”–From UNEP Website
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- UNEP Climate Change Science Compendium 2009 - October 28, 2009
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