Citation
(2010), "Arctic Sea: climate change forecasts pessimistic", International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, Vol. 2 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijccsm.2010.41402bab.002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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Arctic Sea: climate change forecasts pessimistic
Article Type: News From: International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, Volume 2, Issue 2
Arctic Sea-ice is melting 40 per cent faster and recent global average sea-level rise is 80 per cent above previous predictions by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), according to a scientific update recently issued. The 64-page “Copenhagen Diagnosis”, released ahead of December’s UN summit on climate change, summarises hundreds of peer-reviewed research papers that have been published since the IPCC’s latest assessment. The report reiterates there is a very high probability that global warming will exceed 2° unless emissions peak by 2020 and start declining shortly after. Temperatures have continued to increase over the past ten years despite a decrease in solar forcing. Further details are available at: www.copenhagendiagnosis.org/press.html