Posted: 29 Mar 2012 06:10 AM PDT
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in November the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
released the executive summary for a “special report” called Managing
the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change
Adaptation (SREX for shorthand). Today, the IPCC released the full
technical report that underlies the executive summary. In addition to
documenting the scientific evidence that extreme weather events are on
the rise, the report provides a risk-based analysis of how society can
best respond to the climate threat. In the words of Chris Field,
co-chair of one of the two working groups that produced the report:“The
main message from the report is that we know enough to make good
decisions about managing the risks of climate-related disasters.
Sometimes we take advantage of this knowledge, but many times we do
not. The challenge for the future has one dimension focused on
improving the knowledge base and one on empowering good decisions, even
for those situations where there is lots of uncertainty.”![]()
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