IPCC Land report: Commentary

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Climate change and health: on the latest IPCC report.

www.thelancet.com Vol 383 April 5, 2014 1185 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report on March 31, 2014. This report was the second instalment of the Fifth Assessment Report, prepared by Working Group 2, on impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation to climate change. In this Comment, we, as contributors to the chapter on human health, explain how the IPCC rep...

Managing the Risks of Extreme Weather: IPCC Special Report

The number of hot days and nights very likely has increased globally in recent years, according to a special report 1 focused solely on extreme weather events from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2 while the number of cold days has decreased. The future looks similar, the IPCC panel says: If countries continue to increase emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2)—the greenhouse g...

Harmonisation of global land-use scenarios for the period 1500–2100 for IPCC-AR5

6 George Hurtt is Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment and the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space at the University of New Hampshire. He has published on a wide range of topics including the role of dispersal in the dynamics and structure of plant communities, latitudinal and elevational gradients in biodiversity, and ocean and terrestr...

Commentary: Understanding the Flexner report.