Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
The assessment of impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability in the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (WGII AR5) evaluates how patterns of risks and potential benefits are shifting due to climate change since 2007 when the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) was released. The summary of the report can be read here.
Overview The assessment of impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability in the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (WGII AR5) evaluates how patterns of risks and potential benefits are shifting due to climate change since 2007 when the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) was released.
Related UN climate report: Pricing of CO2 emissions critical.
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This is an article in Science that shows how the IPCC is watering down the
data, and doing us all an incredible disservice.
“A strikingly large amount of scientific material [was] stripped out,” says
David Victor, a political scientist at the University of California, San
Diego.
http://news.sciencemag.org/climate/2014/04/scientists-licking-wounds-after-contentious-climate-report-negotiations