Climate Change Update: Act now on climate – scientist | The Manila Bulletin Newspaper Online

Act now on climate – scientist | The Manila Bulletin Newspaper Online: "The 4th Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released in 2007, 'is very clear,' Rajendra Pachauri said Monday in Paris, ahead of a five-day meeting of the body in Brest, France.

The fifth multi-volume assessment, which summarizes peer-reviewed science to help policy makers make decisions, is due out in 2013-2014.

'We have enough evidence, enough scientific findings which should convince people that action has to be taken,' he said after a round-table discussion with France's environment minister, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet.

'Based on observation, we know that there will be more floods, more drought, more heat waves and more extreme precipitation events. These things are happening,' Pachauri said.

Pachauri, whose organization shared the Nobel Peace prize in 2007 with former US vice president Al Gore, announced that a special IPCC report on the relation of extreme weather events and disasters to climate change, and how to adapt to them, would be released on November 19.

The much anticipated report will review efforts by scientists to connect the dots between well identified long-term climate change trends and short-term weather patterns."