If we continue …

“If we continue emissions as normal we could be living in a 4.5 degree warmer world by the end of the century.”

Thomas Stocker, IPCC Working Group 1 Co-chair

Climate Change will Affect People, the Environment and Wildlife

 

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The new IPCC Working Group 2 report, released today, says that climate change is real, it’s happening now and it’s affecting the lives and the livelihoods of people, as well as the planet. According to the report, climate change has already affected agriculture, human health, ecosystems on land and in the oceans and in our water supplies. These effects are global regardless of the wealth of a nation, its size or geographical location.

The report concludes that responding to climate change involves making choices about risks in a changing world.The nature of the risks of climate change is increasingly clear. The report identifies vulnerable people, industries, and ecosystems around the world. It finds that risk from a changing climate comes from vulnerability (lack of preparedness) and exposure (people or assets in harm’s way) overlapping with hazards (triggering climate events or trends). Each of these three components can be a target for smart actions to decrease risk.

Read more about the new IPCC report at: www.ipcc.ch

The Summary for Policy Makers can be downloaded here: http://ipcc-wg2.gov/AR5/images/uploads/IPCC_WG2AR5_SPM_Approved.pdf

Read more about the IPCC report from RealClimate at: www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014/03/ipcc-wg2-report-now-out

IPCC Working Group 2: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

The IPCC Working Group 2 meeting is being held in Yokohama, Japan. This report will form the second part of the IPCC AR5 analysis of our current understanding of climate change.

This working group report will set out the impact that rising temperatures will have on humans, animals and ecosystems over the next century.

You can follow tweets from the meeting on #AR5.

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IPCC ‘Working Group I: The Physical Science Basis’ Video

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group I press video has been released!

Check it out here and find out how we know for sure that climate change is real and human induced greenhouse warming is making it worse.

The new Working Group I (WG1) report was released earlier last month and is one of the 3 main reports published as part of the fifth assessment report (AR5) which details our current understanding of the climate system and human induced climate change. The WG1 Summary for Policymakers can be found here.

Multiple academics from the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds have contributed towards the IPCC AR5 reports. CGS’ Professor Piers Forster is one of a select group of academics chosen to lead the report.

What’s New in Climate Science? – Prof Piers Forster

CGS and Leeds academic Professor Piers Forster giving an excellent overview of the new IPCC fifth assessment report (AR5) on climate change. This was the largest public gathering in the UK since the release of the report in Stockholm earlier in the month.

Piers is one of the lead authors of the new report.