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2008-11-21

How important is natural variability in explaining global warming?

This book aims to place the past few decades of warming in the context of longer term climate variability and considers the causes of such variability on different time-scales through the Holocene. In particular, it reviews the evidence for past climate change based on the analysis of data from naturally occurring climate archives and describes progress being made in developing the climate models needed to simulate and explain past climate variability.

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2008-11-14

Nobel Prize winning scientist elected as future President of ICSU

Deliang Chen

Professor Yuan Tseh Lee from Taipei, China, a world leader in the field of chemical dynamics, has been elected as the future President of the International Council for Science (ICSU), the sponsor of IGBP. He will take up the appointment in April 2010.

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2008-11-05

Press Release: Top scientific meeting urges coordinated response to economic and environmental crises

A fix for the economy must address ecological threats, a top international scientific meeting here has urged. Human society is moving dangerously beyond the planet's natural limits in a striking parallel to the financial debt crisis. “We're running the planet like a subprime loan,” Dr. Johan Rockström of the Stockholm Resilience Centre said. A coordinated response would reduce the risks of both kinds of crises in the future.

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