http://www.metafilter.com/tags/intergovernmentalpanelonclimatechange Posts tagged with 'intergovernmentalpanelonclimatechange' at MetaFilter. Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:15:44 -0800 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:15:44 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/64308/Fasting%2Din%2Dresponse%2Dto%2Dclimate%2Dchange As the global climate changes, agriculture is sure to be affected. <a href="http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/stern_review_economics_climate_change/sternreview_index.cfm">The Stern Review</a> explains that "developing countries - in particular the poorest - are heavily dependent on agriculture, the most climate-sensitive of all economic sectors." <a href="http://www.ipcc-wg2.org/">Working Group II</a> of the <a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/">IPCC</a> says that: "Smallholder and subsistence farmers, pastoralists and artisanal fisherfolk will suffer complex, localised impacts of climate change (high confidence)." Meanwhile, some important staple crops <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6200114.stm">are especially threatened</a> by rising temperatures (though <a href="http://economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8380318">genetic engineering may help</a>). You can <a href="http://www.climateemergency.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=346&Itemid=192">experience a taste of it yourself</a>, with a climate change awareness fast, taking place on Tuesday, September 4th. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.64308 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:15:44 -0800 agriculture climatechange developingworld fasting geneticengineering globalwarming intergovernmentalpanelonclimatechange ipcc sternreview sindark http://www.metafilter.com/27289/Global%2Dwarming%2Dis%2Da%2DWMD <a href="http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green/comment/0,9236,1007302,00.html"><i>"Global warming is now a weapon of mass destruction.</a> It kills more people than terrorism, yet Blair and Bush do nothing."</i> So writes Sir John Houghton, former chief executive of the <a href=http://www.met-office.gov.uk/>Meteorological Office</a> and co-chair of the scientific assessment working group of the <a href=http://www.ipcc.ch/>Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.27289 Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:47:33 -0800 blair bush climatechange globalwarming intergovernmentalpanelonclimatechange johnhoughton meteorology terrorism wmd homunculus