Copenhagen Diagnosis

Latest Science Shows Climate Change Outpacing Previous Projections

Latest Science Shows Climate Change Outpacing Previous Projections

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s last assessment of scientific research related to climate change was issued in 2007. Almost three years later, recognizing the need for an update ahead of next month’s climate talks in Copenhagen, a group of IPCC authors and other scientists released a report today that tries to fill that data gap.

What they found is a climate changing at a rate that outstrips what the IPCC projected just three years ago.

“There’s a common misconception that global warming has somehow paused or declined or reversed,” said Eric Steig, Professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington and one of the report’s 26 authors. “This report shows that is clearly not the case.”

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