Report to Offer Climate Change Evidence

[Judi Lynn]

Report to Offer Climate Change Evidence

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 14, 2006
Filed at 4:15 a.m. ET

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- An authoritative new U.N. assessment of how Earth's climate is changing -- its temperatures rising, polar ice melting, oceans expanding -- should have ''a major impact'' on the political debate over dealing with global warming, the world's chief climate scientist says.

The upcoming report by an international scientific network ''might provide just the right impetus to get the negotiations going in a more purposeful way,'' said Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The Indian climatologist was interviewed Monday, midway through the annual two-week U.N. climate conference.

His global network of some 2,000 climate and other scientists regularly evaluates the state of research into how carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases produced by industry and other human activities are affecting the climate.
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Climate-Scientist.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[rodeodance]

1. mounting and mounting

[moblsv]

2. Exxon

The U.N. document means nothing until Exxon has had a chance to review the findings and remove any unneeded "scientific" opinion