'IPCC Special' on Climate Analysis and
Prediction On 2 February 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the Working Group I report
Climate Change 2007: The Physical
Science Basis of its latest 3-part Assessment Report at a
press conference in Paris (see press releases: English/
French).
Modelling activities within the WCRP have been
fundamental to the completion of the IPCC AR4 and many of the
contributing authors are WCRP scientists.
WCRP and IPCC11.11.07
Science activities organized and coordinated by the WCRP have formed the basis for much of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. With its Earth System Science (ESSP) partners, WCRP is forging the science agenda for future IPCC assessments. Read more (PDF, 19 MB).
Communicating Climate Research to Decision Makers05.09.07
By virtue of their leading roles in international climate research, scientists associated with WCRP and the International Geosphere-Bisophere Programme have been at the forefront in providing the essential scientific bases for all four Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessments. Read feature article in the WCRP Annual Report 2006-2007.
UN Informal Meeting on Climate Change02.08.07
On 31 July, top UN officials joined climate experts and business leaders at the UN headquarters in New York for an informal debate on global warming. Discussions aimed to 'consider how to translate the growing scientific consensus on climate change into a broad political consensus for action', a UN statement said. WCRP was represented by Professor Hervé Le Treut, Member of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee, who presented on Climate Change: a Problem with very Specific Time Scales. More.
Designing Next Generation Models06.06.07
Modeling groups are now making decisions on what form their next generation models will take to be used for climate change projections as well as a possible IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. The new summary report 'A strategy for climate change stabilization experiments with atmosphere-ocean general circulation models and Earth system models' (WCRP Informal Report No.3/2007) results from the Aspen Workshop held from 30 July to 5 August 2006 in Aspen, Colorado, USA, and proposes a new set of experiments to be designed.
Third IPCC Report
on Mitigation Released04.05.07 The third volume of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on
'Mitigation of Climate Change' was released on Friday, 4 May 2007,
in Bangkok, Thailand, after line-by-line approval by all 180 IPCC
member governments. The report focuses on the mitigation of climate
change through limiting or preventing greenhouse gas emissions and
enhancing activities that remove them from the atmosphere. It also
provides information on long-term mitigation strategies for various
concentration stabilization levels and sees substantial economic
potential in all sectors for the mitigation of global greenhouse gas
emissions over the coming decades. Read
Summary for Policymakers
(PDF) and see
press
presentation (PDF).
Second
IPCC Climate Change Report Released12.04.07 In a statement, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the
release of the findings of Working Group II published in the second
report of the WMO/UNEP Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on
Friday, 6 April 2007, expressing concern that the impacts of climate
change are increasingly noticeable, and likely to become more so in
the future, as extreme weather events intensify.
More.
Download Summary for
Policymakers.
Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and
Vulnerability04.04.07
The Working Group II report on Impacts, Adaptation and
Vulnerability contributes to the Climate Change 2007 Assessment
Report of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change. The report will be launched on 6 April 2007
in Brussels, Belgium. It provides a comprehensive analysis of how
climate change is affecting natural and human systems, what the
impacts will be in the future and how far adaptation and mitigation
can reduce these impacts. The report also contains chapters on
specific systems, sectors and regions. Many of the WCRP scientists
involved in the Working Group I report on the Physical Science
Basis also contributed to this second volume.
More.
Event:
Connecting Earth System Science Research to
Climate Change Policy 29.03.07 The Earth System Science Partnership delivers research on
changes occurring in the Earth system and the implications of these
changes for sustainability. This event seeks to strengthen the
dialogue between scientists and climate change policy makers so as
to increase the value of science for policy. ESSP Side Event at
SBSTA 26,
7 May 2007, 1-3 pm, Bonn, Germany.
Overview and
programme.
Workshop:
Future Climate Change Research and
Observations: GCOS, WCRP and IGBP Learning from the IPCC Fourth Assessment
Report (Invitation Only)
29.03.07 The main goal of the workshop will be to consider the
implications from the IPCC AR4 on future climate research challenges
and climate observing strategies with a primary focus on the lessons
learned from Working Groups I and II. It is intended that the
workshop provide a major input into the evolution of the Global
Climate Observing System (GCOS) and the research agenda for WCRP.
4-6 October 2007, Sydney, Australia. Website.
Seminar: Interpreting Climate Change
Simulations: Capacity Building for Developing Nations
(Invitation Only)
28.03.07 Recognizing that response to climate change requires the
capability to appreciate and properly interpret research findings
and to apply them to national planning initiatives, the WCRP and the
International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) wish to support
capacity building in developing and least developed countries. WCRP
together with the ICTP can help ‘transfer knowledge’ with respect to
the science used to make input to and described in the IPCC
assessment reports. By improving knowledge pertaining to climate
change research can have a significant regional and global impact.
26-30 November 2007, Trieste, Italy.
Update on WG2 report: Global Agricultural
Production eventually Decreases
20.03.07 Global warming is expected to turn the planet a bit greener
by spurring plant growth but crops and forests may wilt beyond
mid-century if temperatures keep rising, according to a draft UN
report. The 79-page technical summary of the Working Group 2 IPCC
Fourth Assessment Report will be released in Brussels on 6 April.
Read
news article.
1000 Climate Experts Now Using Greenhouse
Warming Simulations28.02.07
Today, the 1000th person registered to use the world's most complete
collection of global warming data from climate models. The data
include both simulations of past climate and projections of the
future climate. See the rise in
download
rate of model output and read the WCRP press
release.
Backstage from IPCC
AR406.02.07
The IPCC 4th Assessment Report gave us a wake-up call to change our (energy-dependent) habits. The
strength of the Report is the large number of model runs exploring scenarios and parameters, and all of it is available in a coherent archive to the full research community for the first time. The WCRP-initiated Third Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3)
under WCRP/CLIVAR Working Group on Coupled Modeling
(WGCM) underpins all IPCC multi-model
analyses.
Crucial Climate Assessment Released 2.02.07
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases today
the Working Group I report "Climate Change 2007: The Physical
Science Basis" of its latest 3-part Assessment Report at a
press conference in Paris (see press releases: English/
French).
Modelling activities within the WCRP have been
fundamental to the completion of the IPCC AR4. WCRP scientists and
projects contribute significantly to the collection and assembly of
climate observations, model development and understanding of the
climate system necessary for the detection and attribution of
climate change. WCRP's Working
Group on Coupled Modelling initiated the world's first
comprehensive collection and analysis of climate model projections
to be established.
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