Wednesday, February 18, 2009

IPCC: Climate change will be more devastating than predicted, top scientist warns

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/4626170/Climate-change-will-be-more-devastating-than-predicted-top-scientist-warns.html

"We now have data showing that from 2000 to 2007, greenhouse gas emissions increased far more rapidly than we expected, primarily because developing countries, like China and India, saw a huge upsurge in electric power generation, almost all of it based on coal." Stanford's Professor Chris Field, [head] of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).