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	ipcc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In its last report, IPCC stated that average surface temperature is projected to increase by 1.4 to 5.8 Celsius degrees over the period 1990 to 2100, and the sea level is projected to rise by 0.1 to 0.9 metres over the same period.
		The 1992 supplementary report was an update, requested in the context of the negotiations on the Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Earth Summit (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
		The IPCC first assessment report was completed in 1990, and served as the basis of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /IPCC.html (2143 words)

	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		IPCC reports should be neutral with respect to policy, although they may need to deal objectively with scientific, technical and socio-economic factors relevant to the application of particular policies.
		The IPCC is currently (May 2005) in the process of preparing the fourth assessment report or AR4 [13]; reports of the workshops held so far are available [14].
		Authors for the IPCC reports are chosen from a list of researchers prepared by governments, and participating organisations and the Working Group/Task Force Bureaux, and other experts as appropriate, known through their publications and works ([23], 4.2.1,2).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/IPCC (4038 words)

	IPCC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In its last report, IPCC stated that average surface temperature is projected to increase by 1.4 to 5.8 Celsius degrees overthe period 1990 to 2100, and the sea level is projected to rise by 0.1 to 0.9 metres over the same period.
		The IPCC concedes that thereis a need for better models and better scientific understanding of some climate phenomena, as well as the uncertainties involved.Critics assert that the available data is not sufficient to determine the real importance of greenhouse gases in climate change.
		The 1992 supplementary report was an update, requested in the context of the negotiations on the Framework Convention on ClimateChange at the Earth Summit (United Nations Conference on Environmentand Development) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
	www.therfcc.org /ipcc-29801.html (2031 words)

	IPCC
		The Third Assessment Report (TAR) of the IPCC was released over the first three months of 2001 as the IPCC working groups completed the final approval process for their submissions to the report.
		The third part of the SPM is an analysis of the potential costs and benefits of mitigation activities, with a focus on the economic costs of reducing carbon emissions.
		The assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change (IPCC) are syntheses of scientific climate change literature put together by scientists and experts from around the world.
	www.agiweb.org /gap/legis107/ipcc.html (1883 words)

	Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This report uses the familiar “million metric tons” common in European industry instead of “gigagram,” which is equal to 1,000 metric tons and is the term favored by the scientific community.
		The IPCC is an international assemblage of scientists commissioned by the United Nations to assess the scientific, technical, and socioeconomic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change.
		For the IPCC Special Report on Emission Scenarios (SRES) illustrative scenarios, relative to the year 2000, the global mean radiative forcing due to greenhouse gases continues to increase through the 21st century, with the fraction due to CO projected to increase from slightly more than one-half to about three-quarters.
	www.eia.doe.gov /oiaf/1605/gg01rpt/emission_box.html (2666 words)

	IPCC WGI third assessment report: summary for policymakers
		IPCC WGI third assessment report: summary for policymakers
		The Third Assessment Report of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) builds upon past assessments and incorporates new results from the past five years of research on climate change.
		This summary for policymakers, which was approved by IPCC member governments in Shanghai in January 2001, describes the current state of understanding of the climate system and provides estimates of its projected future evolution and their uncertainties.
	www.eldis.org /static/DOC8241.htm (244 words)

	RSNZ: IPCC 3rd Assessment Report
		This paper introduces recent work on scenarios for global climate change undertaken as part of the IPCC Third Assessment Report, and sets the scene for later papers in which the implications of those scenarios are examined for New Zealand.
		The emission scenarios used in the IPCC Third Assessment Report were developed in a separate exercise that produced a Special Report on Emission Scenarios.
		Figure 1 is adapted from the IPCC SRES report and shows global population projections used for the scenarios, comparing these with the population projections of the IS92 scenarios used in the Second Assessment Report.
	www.rsnz.org /advisory/nz_climate/climchgwk01/manning.php (2988 words)

	ATSE - 3rd Assessment Report of the IPCC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The role of the Member governments in formal intergovernmental sessions of the IPCC and its working groups is to determine the scope of the assessment to be carried out and to put in place the procedures for selecting the scientists to be invited to lead the assessment process and facilitate their work.
		The IPCC review process aims to ensure that as wide as possible a range of expert opinion is tapped and that the judgement of the Lead Authors in their assessment of the balance of opinion is canvassed and tested from all relevant perspectives.
		The preparation of the Third Assessment Report (TAR) was formally initiated by the Thirteenth Session of the IPCC in the Maldives in September 1997.
	www.atse.org.au /index.php?sectionid=620 (3746 words)

	The IPCC Third Assessment Report: A Clearer Picture, But Still Large Uncertainties
		This Third Assessment Report was approved by the IPCC’s Working Group I on trends in the climate system at a conference Jan. 17 to 20 in Shanghai.
		The IPCC was established in 1988 by the United Nation’s meteorological and environmental agencies to develop a broad scientific consensus on climate change, providing a base for the international negotiations on policies to address it.
		The Chinese felt that the IPCC was ignoring those scientists who doubt the human influence on warming and who dispute the weight given to carbon dioxide as a cause of it, the Times said.
	www.rff.org /rff/Publications/weathervane/Features/2001/The-IPCC-Third-Assessment-Report-A-Clearer-Picture-But-Still-Large-Uncertainties.cfm (1177 words)

	IPCC Prepares Third Assessment Report
		Like all IPCC reports, the TAR is being written by multidisciplinary teams of authors from around the world, chosen for their scientific and technical expertise in topics relevant to the report.
		The IPCC was formed in 1988 by the United Nations Environmental Programme and World Meteorological Organization to gain a better understanding of global climate change.
		The Special Report on Aviation and the Global Atmosphere, completed in May 1999, assesses what is known about the effects of aviation on the Earth's climate and atmospheric ozone, both in the recent past and for the future.
	www.usgcrp.gov /usgcrp/Library/nationalassessment/newsletter/1999.10/IPCC.html (642 words)

	IPCC, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Third Assessment Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This was a critical session in which the ‘Summary for Policy Makers’ produced as part of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC had to be approved.
		But the strength of the IPCC process lies in the fact that in the end the Report has the full acceptance of the member countries, since they are part of the approval, literally of every word produced in the ‘Summary for Policy Makers’.
		Over the life of the IPCC, which was established in 1988, a growing number of specialists, researchers, and academics from the developing countries have entered into the process of creating each assessment, particularly in the latest, which is known as the Third Assessment Report.
	www.teriin.org /features/newswire/tnw718.htm (419 words)

	News Reports on the IPCC Third Assessment Report
		The report was issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which advises the world's governments under the auspices of the United Nations.
		The report, "Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability," is being released today at a meeting in Geneva and on the Internet by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which advises the world's governments under the auspices of the United Nations.
		The report is the official view of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the body of several hundred scientists advising governments on global warming since 1990.
	www.terryally.com /library/2001/20010219ipccTARnews.html (1146 words)

	IPCC Third Assessment Report - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was issued in 2001.
		It consists of the reports of three working groups and a synthesis:
		The WGI covers the same areas as for the SAR but WG's II and III cover slightly different areas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/IPCC_Third_Assessment_Report (91 words)

	Christy Scoffs at IPCC’s Doomsday Scenario; Russia’s Frigid Winter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		John Christy, director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama at Huntsville and a lead author of the IPCC’s Third Assessment Report, has publicly criticized the IPCC’s media campaign to generate public alarm about global warming.
		On the computer models that form the foundation of the IPCC report, Christy said, "You should approach climate models with a degree of awe and a sense of humor.
		Because the coldest air masses on earth are also the driest, greenhouse gases exert a relatively larger influence on temperatures than in more humid regions, such as the tropics.
	www.globalwarming.org /article.php?uid=206 (392 words)

	Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary, Tiempo - Issue 40/41, The IPCC Third Assessment: Impacts
		Approximately 1.7 billion people, one-third of the world’s population, presently live in countries that are water-stressed (defined as using more than 20% of their renewable water supply, a commonly used indicator of water stress).
		Similar assessments indicate that yields of some crops in tropical locations would decrease generally with even minimal increases in temperature, because such crops are near their maximum temperature tolerance and dryland/rainfed agriculture predominates.
		The impacts of short-term weather events on human health have been further elucidated since the Second Assessment Report, particularly in relation to periods of thermal stress, the modulation of air pollution impacts, the impacts of storms and floods, and the influences of seasonal and interannual climatic variability on infectious diseases.
	www.tiempocyberclimate.org /floor0/recent/issue4041/t4041a5.htm (5270 words)

	Assessments: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
		IPCC Press Release (dtd 22 Jan 2000), IPCC Working Group I accepts its contribution to IPCC Third Assessment Report "Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis", Shanghai, 20 January 2001.
		IPCC press release (dtd 16 Jan 2000), IPCC Working Group I meets to accept its contribution to IPCC Third Assessment Report, Shanghai, 17 - 20 January 2001.
		Co-chair of IPCC: "The rate of warming is far greater than it has been for the last 10,000 years".
	www.usgcrp.gov /usgcrp/links/ipcc.htm (541 words)

	Junkscience.com -- "All the junk that's fit to debunk" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Through this notice, the SGCR is announcing the availability of the draft Third Assessment Report upon its receipt from IPCC and is requesting comments on the draft report by the deadlines indicated from scientists, experts and other interested organizations and individuals.
		The first Scientific Assessment of Climate Change, for example, was prepared in 1990 and the Second Assessment Report was prepared in 1995.
		Periodic assessment reports such as these provide a comprehensive statement of the state of knowledge concerning topics such as scientific information, environmental impacts, response strategies, and other issues concerning climate change.
	www.junkscience.com /apr00/ipccfr.htm (1453 words)

	An Independent Review of the IPCC’s Third Assessment Report; National Assessment Under Fire; Sinks: A Short-term Fix? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The speakers, many of whom are technical reviewers of the IPCC report, challenged key areas of the 1000-page draft report and the main conclusions of the seven-page Summary for Policy Makers.
		According to the article, the report attempts to show "the effects of global warming in the United States, predicting droughts, floods and extreme weather region by region." Critics argue that we don’t know enough to make such predictions, however.
		The third study uses an ecosystem model for coniferous forests to conclude that under a scenario where there is no long-term effect of temperature on respiration, forests may become more effective CO sinks in the future.
	www.globalwarming.org /article.php?uid=424 (1657 words)

	MOPPING UP AFTER A LEAK: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON THE "NEW" FINDINGS OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		These "Assessment Reports" become the central touchstone of the debate over climate change, laying out a consensus version of what is known, what is still uncertain, and how various actions might or might not cause changes in future climate conditions.
		The 1995 report is about to be supplanted by the IPCC "Third Assessment Report, or TAR, to be published early in 2001.
		The leak of the Summary report of the IPCC Third Assessment Report may be seen, by some, as a way of creating a short-term ripple in the political landscape of the United States Presidential campaign.
	www.rppi.org /ebrief105.html (2060 words)

	COMMENTS ON THE SECOND DRAFT OF THE THIRD ASSESSMENT REPORT OF THE IPCC
		However, after reading through the Report itself I consider that the Policymakers Summary does, in general, give a fair account of the Report itself, and the distortions, exaggerations and ambiguities are to be found throughout the Report.
		The Special Report on Emissions Scenarios is the most intensely political of all the IPCC documents, as it provides the basis for future "projections" and all the on-going "impact" studies which are supposed to tell the world what we may expect in the future.
		Yet it is continually referred to with approbation in the Third Assessment Report, and used as the basis for many future projections, where the workers have not yet had time to take in the new set of scenarios.
	www.john-daly.com /tar-gray/tar-spm.htm (5504 words)

	IPCC - The Third Assessment Report - Working Group I
		One of the most important features of the Third Assessment Report is the strengthening of the conclusion that human activity is driving the observed climate change.
		Climate models have improved greatly since the Second Assessment Report (1996), and now include factors such as water vapour, ocean heat transport and sea-ice dynamics.
		As shown in these three figures, models which take into account only natural climate factors during the last century fail to match the observed increase in global temperatures, while modeling the effect of fossil fuel burning predicts too much climate change.
	www.davidsuzuki.org /Climate_Change/Science/IPCC/TAR/WGI.asp (710 words)

	ESIG Annual Scientific Report 2001: Scientific Highlights
		In the volume released for Working Group I of the IPCC Third Assessment Report, Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis, Linda Mearns was co-Convening Lead Author of Chapter 13, "Climate Scenario Development" with Michael Hulme (U East Anglia).
		She was also a Lead Author for Chapter 10, "Regional Climate Analysis," of the Working Group I Report, which assesses regionalization techniques such as statistical downscaling, regional climate modeling, and stretched GCM grid techniques.
		The importance of characterizing uncertainty in all aspects of climate impact assessment work is becoming more obvious as the science develops (i.e., "the value of knowing how little you know").
	www.esig.ucar.edu /asr01/highlights.html (1244 words)

	US isolation on climate change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), particularly as it relates to the Third Assessment Report of that body covering all the significant aspects of climate change.
		The IPCC is not a policy-making or policy recommending body, and actually goes through a great deal of care in ensuring that its reports do not carry any recommendation of policies whatsoever, even though they must, as far as possible, be policy relevant.
		The NAS study confirms the major findings of the IPCC and states that "Greenhouse gases are accumulating in earth’s atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise," the report said.
	www.teriin.org /features/art114.htm (1180 words)

	Earth Negotiations Bulletin
		Parties discussed: the IPCC TAR; Protocol Articles 5 (methodological issues), 7 (communication of information), and 8 (review of information); "good practices" in policies and measures (PandMs); capacity building; UNFCCC Article 4.8 and 4.9 (adverse effects); the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF); and the programme budget for the biennium 2004-2005.
		IPCC TAR: This group met in morning and evening sessions to continue deliberations on the Co-Chairs’ draft conclusions.
		On the reports of the workshops on insurance and risk assessment, delegates could not agree on whether to address them in separate paragraphs.
	www.iisd.ca /vol12/enb12216e.html (1884 words)

	Random Thoughts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On the "Prometheus" weblog, I criticized the IPCC Third Assessment Report as being "pseudoscience."
		After all, the IPCC “consensus” is based on supporting “consensus” for atmospheric methane concentrations, and CO2 emissions and resultant atmospheric concentrations.
		I will bet any member of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) that my projections are better than the IPCC projections in their Third Assessment Report (TAR).
	markbahner.typepad.com /random_thoughts (2508 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - Rice yields plunging due to balmy nights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) currently predicts that without drastic action to halt emissions of greenhouse gases, there will be a rise of 3.6°C in average global temperatures in the coming century.
		Cassman agrees that “the increased CO concentration should partly offset the negative effects of higher night-time temperatures.” But he points out that the Los Banos research plots have been subjected to both higher temperatures and higher CO levels, and the negative effects won.
		The IPCC's Third Assessment Report in 2001 foresaw the Los Banos results, stating: "In the tropics, where some crops are near their maximum temperature tolerance, yields would decrease generally with even minimal changes in tremperature."
	www.newscientist.com /news/news.jsp?id=ns99996082 (613 words)

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