Philippine scientists have re-echoed the warning against climate change and the urgent need for mitigation and adaptation. Citing the latest (2014) assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the body created by the United Nations to assess and synthesize climate change studies by hundreds of scientists around the world, Dr. Rodel D. Lasco, IPCC member and agroforestry expert, summarized its findings in a forum on “Climate Change, Poverty and Development” held March 27 at the Cyber Lecture Hall in Silliman University. Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, sea level has risen, and the concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased Each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the Earth’s surface than any preceding decade since 1850 1983–2012 was likely the warmest 30-year period of the last 1400 years Continue reading...
I know, but I think you would not want to here my thoughts on global warming, climate change, or whatever the Al Gore is calling it. Cheers.
