IPCC AR5 Impacts Adaptation Vulnerability

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 04 Nov 2013, 22:05

http://www.spiegel.de/media/media-32618.pdf

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/1 ... cc-report/

Climate change will seriously damage the world’s ability to feed itself in the coming decades, according to a leaked report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

No shit Sherlock.

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 18 Jan 2014, 17:14

The next installment is leaking out:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/ ... OI20140115

A 29-page summary for policymakers, seen by Reuters, says most scenarios show that rising world emissions will have to plunge by 40 to 70 percent between 2010 and 2050 to give a good chance of restricting warming to U.N. targets.

The report, outlining solutions to climate change, is due to be published in Germany in April after editing by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It will be the third in a series by the IPCC, updating science from 2007.

It says the world is doing too little to achieve a goal agreed in 2010 of limiting warming to below 2 degrees (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times, seen as a threshold for dangerous floods, heatwaves, droughts and rising sea levels.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 28 Mar 2014, 15:30

Batten down the hatches; fill the grain stores; raise the flood defenses. We cannot know exactly what is coming, but it will probably be nasty

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Some certainties do remain. The leaked draft suggests growing agreement among climate modelers that Scandinavia and much of Canada will see more precipitation and that the southwestern U.S., southern Australia, the Middle East, southern Europe, and North Africa can expect more droughts and emptier rivers.

Southern Europe looks set to fry, with crops shriveling in the fields, reservoirs emptying, deserts spreading, tourists staying away, and demand for air conditioning going through the roof.

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 31 Mar 2014, 08:00

Today's compulsory reading (sorry they left out the cute cat pictures). http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/ar5/pr_wg2/14033 ... spm_en.pdf

Summary for Policy Makers http://www.ipcc-wg2.gov/.../IPCC_WG2AR5 ... proved.pdf

The whole thing: http://ipcc-wg2.gov/AR5/report/final-drafts/

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 31 Mar 2014, 18:38

Grantham Institute account:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/climatechang ... es/ipccwg2

Important message from important person: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6loTK3F ... ploademail

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 03 Apr 2014, 12:05

Panel’s Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come

A rather good New York Times article.

The poorest people in the world, who have had virtually nothing to do with causing global warming, will be high on the list of victims as climatic disruptions intensify, the report said. It cited a World Bank estimate that poor countries need as much as $100 billion a year to try to offset the effects of climate change; they are now getting, at best, a few billion dollars a year in such aid from rich countries.

The $100 billion figure, though included in the 2,500-page main report, was removed from a 48-page executive summary to be read by the world’s top political leaders. It was among the most significant changes made as the summary underwent final review during an editing session of several days in Yokohama.

The edit came after several rich countries, including the United States, raised questions about the language, according to several people who were in the room at the time but did not wish to be identified because the negotiations were private. The language is contentious because poor countries are expected to renew their demand for aid this September in New York at a summit meeting of world leaders, who will attempt to make headway on a new treaty to limit greenhouse gases.

Many rich countries argue that $100 billion a year is an unrealistic demand

The world's top 100 richest people 'earn' well over twice that much extra - i.e. over and above what they already have - each year. Money is not the problem.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 03 Apr 2014, 14:51

The Telegraph and climate change

On the Daily Mail’s website, climate breakdown was scarcely a footnote to the real issues of the day: “Kim Kardashian looks more confident than ever as she shows off her toned curves” and “Little George is the spitting image of Kate”.

Beneath these indispensable reports was a story celebrating the discovery of “vast deposits of coal lying under the North Sea, which could provide enough energy to power Britain for centuries.”(4) No connection with the release of the new climate report was made. Like royal babies, Kim’s curves and Ibsen’s municipal baths, coal is good for business.

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 05 Apr 2014, 12:40

The most important message that we all need to heed: http://unfccc.int/files/press/press_rel ... ipieca.pdf

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 08 Apr 2014, 12:05

biffvernon wrote:The most important message that we all need to heed: http://unfccc.int/files/press/press_rel ... ipieca.pdf

Hey, what's this 'we'?

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 10 Apr 2014, 16:49

"We're going towards that militarised, fortress, geo-engineered future."

Naomi Klein points out how current political and military thinking will dominate (is dominating) the responses to climate change and resource depletion.

Video source

System change not climate change