Global warming worse than predicted [View All]

[RedEarth]

Source: couriermail

REPORT by Australian scientists has warned that the world is warming faster than predicted by the United Nations' top climate change body. The report, prepared by Dr Graeme Pearman, former head of the CSIRO's atmospheric research unit, found temperatures and greenhouse pollution were rising faster than forecast by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The report, prepared for the Climate Institute, noted that the IPCC's recent Fourth Assessment Report used material published up to mid-2006, but many important new observations had been published since.

"These suggest that the IPCC assessment is underestimating the risks of adverse impacts due to increased warming during this century and that impacts previously considered to be at the upper end of likelihood are now more probable," the report reads. "Greenhouse emissions are rising faster than the worst-case IPCC scenarios."

The report found if current trends continue the world's temperature will rise approximately three degrees celsius by the end of this century, relative to pre-industrial temperatures - well above what are considered dangerous levels.
The IPCC reported the concentration of carbon dioxide had increased from a pre-industrial value of 280 parts per million to 379 ppm in 2005.



Read more: http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,22763986-952,00.html

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.....another article dealing with Dr Graeme Pearman's comments.....

"They talk about climate change being on the radar. But it's not, it's right outside the window," Dr Pearman said.

"It's already happening. It's a story we didn't really want to hear and we don't have decades to respond."

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22765560-2,00.html