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MOREP NEWSProceedings of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will be assessed
The announcement Wednesday by the Secretary General of UN Ban Ki-moon follows the controversy over the content too alarmist by some, the IPCC report.
The Inter-Academy Council, which brings together hundreds of national academies of science, will support this assessment. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, the IPCC, whose research form the basis of the UN Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), has been under scrutiny by skeptics of global warming after admitting having committed in January an “unfortunate mistake” in substantially overestimating the speed at which Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035 or earlier.
“Let me be clear: the threat posed by climate change is real. Nothing has been alleged or proved in the recent news that could affect the scientific consensus around climate change,” said Ban Ki-moon, along with Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC.
The Secretary General acknowledged the existence of “a handful of errors” in the Fourth Assessment Report of IPCC, 3,000 pages of documents released in 2007 based on a ten thousand scientific studies.
We believe that the conclusions of this report are actually immune to doubt, for his part said Pachauri.
The next IPCC report is expected in 2013 and 2014.
A giant iceberg the size of Luxembourg has posted the Mertz Glacier, Antarctica, East
This block of ice, which has an area of 2,350 km2 and a thickness of about 400 m, separated on or about February 20 from Mertz Glacier, a tongue of ice of 160 miles long, which plunges to the ocean.
The new iceberg is one of the largest trained in Antarctica for many years. In 2002, a block of ice about 200 kilometers long detached from the Ross ice. Another, of a size equivalent to Singapore, had separated from the Pine Island Glacier in 2007. The shear Mertz Glacier and the presence of two moving icebergs in the area could now affect the movement of ocean currents. It is in this area that are generated by dense salt water currents, which play an important role in the formation of currents on the entire planet.
The path of these giant icebergs may also have a significant impact on biodiversity, including food for birds and marine mammals, including the emperor penguin colony of Pointe Géologie, near the base of Dumont d’Urville, made famous by the film of Luc Jacquet “March of the Penguins”.
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