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Conclusions of Working Group III of AR4

As I wrote here on Friday, below is a short version of the Summary of Policymakers of the third Working Group of AR4. Those pages concern the mitigation of climate change. We will see it is still time to act and hope remains.

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Third part of AR4 released

The International Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) released the third Summary for Policy-makers of their Fourth Assessment Report. It is available there. I haven’t read it yet but will do a article I will publish on Monday.

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Third part of AR4 to be released on friday

The third part of the fourth assessment report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is to be released on Friday. This one will tackle the responses that can be brought to mitigate climate change.

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An exoplanet where Mankind could live ?

This week, an exceptional event happened in Astronomy and I am creating a new category of articles for the occasion. If you had a look at my resume, you know that I am quite interested by this noble science, and indeed today’s article is related to that.

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Conclusions of the second part of AR4

As I said before my vacation, I write this week an article on the second part of AR4, the fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC. The final version of this reporst was hard to finish as many parts raised discussions with polluting nations like the United States, China or Russia. I will give below a

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Second volume of IPCC report to be published on friday

The climate change reports by the IPCC experts are made of three parts. After the release of the first part of the fourth report that was published in January, the second one is due for Friday. This section will be handling the “impacts, adaptation and vulnerability” due to climate change.

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Some books that are waiting on my shelves

Oh, a post on Saturday. This is pretty rare but I wanted to write on the various books that I have to read for my personal needs and wants. I will only talk about the books that are related to sustainable development and energy as the other are not really interesting for the sake of

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International Polar Year begins today

Today is the launch of the International Polar Year (IPY ; official website). This will be the occasion for scientists all over the world to study more carefully the poles and their specificities. This event takes place every fifty years and the previous edition, in 1957-58, led to a better understanding of the poles and

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More on the latest IPCC paper

In a previous post I was giving general information but not a lot of precise data. I take the opportunity here to give some more concerning carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. This summary reported a worsening in the climate change situation, and this for several reasons.

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Study of the latest “Summary for policymakers”

I had time during the week-end to have a look at the summary for policymakers that was published last Friday by the IPCC specialists. This fourth report brings more precise data and reinforces the impression given by the third report that was published in 2001. During this time, climate specialists had time to study various

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