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IPCC stands for the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an organization set up by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1988. Its aims are to assess the impacts of human-induced climate change and report the impacts and possible adaptation and mitigation.
The IPCC, which is made up of many scientists (152) who are in the climate-related fields, and who perform their work on a voluntary basis, does not conduct any research itself. It makes periodical assessments based on all the available information, i.e., mostly peer-reviewed, scientific studies, papers and research published to that date by world-wide scientists in the climate-related fields (e.g., climatologists, biologists, paleo-climatologists, oceanographers, physicists, etc.).
The latest IPCC assessment, from 2007 (sometimes referred to as the Fourth Assessment), was written by 620 authors and editors from 40 countries. The Panel's next assessment is due in 2014.
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∙ 10y agoThe InterGovernmental Panel of Climate Change tells us that global warming
- is happening, and
- it is caused by human activities, specifically
- deforestation, the destruction of the great forests of the world, and
- the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), which is releasing carbon dioxide which has been sequestered away for 300 million years.
- This increase in greenhouse gases traps more heat in the atmosphere and this is causing global warming and climate change.
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What is the relationship between ozone layer and global warming?
Ozone layer and global warming have such a strong relation. The relation is like a strong force.
What was alarming about the 1990s in regards to global warming?
The first two reports (1990 and 1995) of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirmed that the world is definitely warming and this warming is being caused by human activity.
What are the world leaders doing about global warming?
The UN has established the InterGovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to gather and share information about global warming. The Kyoto Protocol is an agreement that all countries signed to limit their emissions of greenhouse gases.
What is the relationship between halocarbons and climate change?
Halocarbons, compounds of carbon and halogen, make the world's climate become hotter. In 2007 the IPCC declared that halocarbons were a direct cause of global warming.
Is there a connection of A H1N1 and global warming?
The tolerance of human swine influenza is higher and less serious in terms of danger to health than global warming. Global warming is the increase in the avergae temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation. Swine influenza affects a vast population of the humans and clearly does not have any relation to global warming as yet.
What is the relationship between ozone layer and global warming?
Ozone layer and global warming have such a strong relation. The relation is like a strong force.
What is the relation of science education in global warming?
Brain washing
What is the difference in global warming and global jihad?
global warming is an environmental phenomenon and Jihad is holy war. So there is no relation between them.
What was alarming about the 1990s in regards to global warming?
The first two reports (1990 and 1995) of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirmed that the world is definitely warming and this warming is being caused by human activity.
What are the world leaders doing about global warming?
The UN has established the InterGovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to gather and share information about global warming. The Kyoto Protocol is an agreement that all countries signed to limit their emissions of greenhouse gases.
Are the greenhouse is noun?
In relation to global warming, yes. In any other case no.
What has the IPCC got to say about global warming?
The InterGovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that global warming is happening, and that it is being caused by the human activities of deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels. Deforestation means that removed trees can no longer remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Burning of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that has been long hidden underground.
What do you understand by global warming?
Global warming is the way the Earth is getting warmer. The word 'global' means 'worldwide' and the warming is of the atmosphere, the oceans and the surface of the earth. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), temperatures, averaged over all land and ocean surfaces, have warmed roughly 1.33°F (0.74ºC) over the last century, (see page 2 of the IPCC's Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report Summary for Policymakers Link below.). More than half of this warming, about 0.72°F (0.4°C), has occurred since 1979.
What pressure groups are stating the dangers of global warming?
Lots of groups are starting to speak out about the dangers of global warming, including the government, the NRDC (Natural Resource Defense Council), IPCC (Intergoverment Panel on Climate Change), and the WWF (World Wildlife Fund).
Is it 'global warming' or 'global warning'?
Global Warming.
Which of the following global issues dose the 1997 Kyoto protocol address?
global warming!!!!!!
What is the relationship between halocarbons and climate change?
Halocarbons, compounds of carbon and halogen, make the world's climate become hotter. In 2007 the IPCC declared that halocarbons were a direct cause of global warming.
