Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Archives

CLIMATE CRISIS

Climate crisis: Is there a Savitri to save the world from catastrophe?

5th January 2020

The legend of Savitri and Satyavan in the Mahabharata, is a love story. Savitri, a beautiful princess, marries Satyavan, a penniless woodcutter, despite the Sage Narada warning her that Satyavan, a dead man walking, would die in one year. Now, the story of Savitri and Satyavan is being played out in real life in the ongoing climate change saga….

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Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months

30th July 2019

From BBC: “The climate math is brutally clear: While the world can’t be healed within the next few years, it may be fatally wounded by negligence until 2020,” said Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, founder of the Potsdam Climate Institute. The sense is that the end of next year is the last chance saloon for climate change….

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2018: The year things fell apart — or the year the tide turned?

25th December 2018

From The Revelator: In the year ahead we all need to stand up and let our elected officials and unelected corporate power-brokers know what really matters to us and to the planet. We need to demand transparency and the truth, rapid change, renewed protections for imperiled species and a commitment to sustainability on all fronts….

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Portrait of a planet on the verge of climate catastrophe

1st December 2018

From The Guardian: On the eve of the UN’s annual climate conference, many experts believe the world may no longer be hovering at the edge of destruction but has probably crossed a crucial point of no return. Climate catastrophe now looks inevitable; we’ve simply left it too late to hold global temperatures to under 1.5C….

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The IPCC Special Report on climate change: A dissection

7th November 2018

The recent Special Report by the IPCC was widely described as giving a stark warning about risks faced by humanity if climate change is not dealt with urgently. What exactly does this imply, and how reliable is this document? We present analyses by Michael Mann, Richard Heinberg, Ratheesh Pisharody, Adam Markham, Kevin Anderson and Padmini Gopal….

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David Wallace-Wells: UN says climate genocide is coming. It’s actually worse.

18th October 2018

We’re on track for four degrees of warming, more than twice as much as most scientists believe is possible to endure without inflicting climate suffering on hundreds of millions or threatening at least parts of what we call, grandly, “civilization.” The only thing that changed is that the scientists, finally, have hit the panic button….

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The IPCC systematically underestimates climate risks: here’s the proof

8th October 2018

A Special Report on Global Warming has been released today by the IPCC, considered the international benchmark on climate change. Ahead of it, Donald Brown reviewed three independent studies which show that climate change is a much more urgent and serious threat than indicated by past IPCC reports, and examines the ethical questions they raise….

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Sagar Dhara: Keep the Climate, Change the Economy

1st February 2015

Contrasting outcomes of recent global warming meetings Sagar Dhara Two recent meetings on global warming, one scientific and the other political, are of great public interest as they have a bearing on human society’s future course to become a sustainable global community. The meetings contrasted each other in the clarity of their outcomes. The first…

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News update

17th December 2014

Editor’s note: The ongoing oil price war that pits a shale-boom riding U.S. and their allies OPEC against arch rivals Russia, Iran and Venezuela could have far-reaching consequences. It has begun to seriously impact a Russian economy already isolated by U.S. and EU sanctions. At a time when Ukraine is a flashpoint between the West and Russia, such…

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News update

7th November 2014

Oil Price Slide – No Good Way Out Gail Tverberg The world is in a dangerous place now. A large share of oil sellers need the revenue from oil sales. They have to continue producing, regardless of how low oil prices go unless they are stopped by bankruptcy, revolution, or something else that gives them…

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News update

4th November 2014

Why the Fracking Phenomenon Will Leave Us High and Dry Asher Miller, Post Carbon Institute A new, landmark report shows that hopes of a long-term golden era in American oil & gas production are unfounded. Eight Pieces of Our Oil Price Predicament Gail Tverberg A person might think that oil prices would be fairly stable. Prices would…

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News update

27th May 2014

How Climate Change is Going To Affect India By Nidhi Jamwal, Yahoo India A new set of reports by UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change point to the rising incidence of freak weather occurrences, and the very real impact of these on our lives. Of course we’ve all heard of global warming, but here’s how…

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News update

2nd April 2014

Climate change a threat to security, food and humankind – IPCC report The report from the UN’s intergovernmental panel on climate change concluded that climate change was already having effects in real time – melting sea ice and thawing permafrost in the Arctic, killing off coral reefs in the oceans, and leading to heat waves,…