Updating the Science of Global Warming: A Q&A with Marine Biologist Katherine Richardson
Friday, November 14, 2008 - 17:21
in Earth & Climate
When the world's governments gather in December 2009 in Copenhagen to negotiate a treaty to restrain global greenhouse gas emissions, the science on which they base their decision could be as much as four years out of date. The United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) offered its synthesis of existing research in February 2007 and it was based on studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals only through 2005. [More]