Climate change experts to make decisions later this month

The United Nations (UN) is expected to release a report later this month concerning global climate change—particularly, rising sea levels and temperatures.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is responsible for the report, and their findings have a great deal of influence on how governments across the world decide to act on climate change. According to The New York Times, there are two main groups of scientists: one has said that if the burning of fossil fuels continues at the rate it is, ocean levels could rise by 3 feet by 2100; the second is concerned that if the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere doubles, temperatures will rise by at least 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit worldwide, but likely by more than 5. The report, though not final, has drawn criticism from experts and non-experts alike, with many concerned that the current lowball estimates do not paint as critical a picture of climate change as they should.

Climate change skeptics often claim that truth in these reports is stretched, and many have recently latched onto a report that the earth is cooling, rather than warming, due to the growth of the ice cap on the Artic Sea this year, The Wall Street Journal reports. Articles like the one published earlier this week by the Daily Mail, have stated that there was about a million square miles more of the ice sheet this year as compared with last year, but have failed to recognize the long term projections which show that the ice sheets will continue their rapid decline.

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