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Landmark IPCC report issued

The Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their final "Synthesis Report" Saturday. This massive effort, repeated just once every seven years by 2,000 of the world's top climate scientists, summarizes the current state of scientific knowledge on climate change, the likely impacts, and options for how to respond. All literate citizens of the world should at least skim the 23-page report. For those of you unwilling to do so, I'll give you a 4-sentence summary:

Human-caused climate change is very likely already occurring, and will get much more significant over the coming decades.

While some regions will experience benefits, most regions will experience costly and dangerous climate change.

Developing nations will suffer the most.

Strong action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2015 is needed to prevent the worst impacts.


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