Report Lights Fires Around the World on Need To Slow Climate Change
Global warming, already a hot topic, will likely heat up more following this month’s assessment by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The Feb. 2 report cites, with more than 90% certainty, human use of fossil fuels as the main cause of climate change.
IPCC’s findings, based largely on peer-reviewed reports by hundreds of scientists around the globe, immediately prompted calls for high-level talks to extend the historic greenhouse-gas-emission-cutting Kyoto Protocol as it nears its second anniversary on Feb. 16.