More on IPCC SWG Report

The Post's main article on the IPCC's Second Working Group report talks about the negotiations that went into the consensus-building to create the final report. "The climax of five days of negotiations . . . which was based on 29,000 sets of data, much of it collected in the last five years. 'For the first time we are not just arm-waving with models,' Martin Perry, who conducted the grueling negotiations, told reporters." The United States, China and Saudi Arabia objected to some of the stronger language in the report. More than 120 nations attended the meeting. Changes to the report had to be approved by the scientists who wrote that section of the report. Approval by consensus of every report is SOP for the IPCC and its subcommittees. The report breaks down the scientific predictions into regions, and predicts that climate change will affect billions of people.
The third Post article tells how climate change threatens the world's natural wonders, including the Great Barrier Reef and tropical rainforests, according to the World Wildlife Fund for Nature. WWF reps observed the conference and issued their own report on regions and species affected by global warming.