Responding to the climate crisis - taking action on the IPCC 6th Assessment Report On 17 September 2021, the Grantham Institute hosted a follow-up to the Royal Meteorological Society's virtual event on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th assessment report (AR6). Controversy ...
A brief summary in press release style of my new paper (written in the third person) One of the most important conclusions of the recent 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR6) was to reduce the uncertainty in estimates of climate sensitivity to dou...
Report production and the authors are supported by the IPCC Secretariat and the WG Technical Support Units (TSUs). An assessment cycle begins with the election of a Chair and Bureau, often with substantial changes to the membership, and establishment of new TSUs. Transitions often generate ...
(IPCC) with the release of the first part of the 6thAssessment Report (AR6), which the United Nations Secretary General called a ‘code-red for humanity’. But both the call in 2001 and again in 2021 are entirely consistent. It’s not the climate science that has changed, just the ...
Summary for Policymakers, despite other estimates that existed at the time. Subsequent reports assessed many large-scale temperature reconstructions, but the entirety of Common Era temperature history in the most recent Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was restricted...
The IPCC has produced six assessment reports since it was established: 1990, 1995, 2001, 2007, 2013/2014, and 2021/2022. The sixth report, entitled "AR6" (as in "Assessment Report 6"), is usually published in several instalments between August 2021 (volume 1) and September 2022 (volume...
Scenarios were developed by the IPCC itself for the early assessment reports but with production of the 6th Assessment Report scenario production was left to the scientific community with IPCC playing a facilitating role. This change was considered important to maintain the distinction between scenario ...
Building on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) review of how to make its Assessment Reports (ARs) more accessible in the future, the research reported here assesses the extent to which the ARs are a useful tool through which scientif
The publication of IPCC reports occurs roughly every six years (± one year) as “Assessment Reports”: the First Assessment Report (AR1) was published in 1990, AR2 in 1996, AR3 in 2001, AR4 in 2007 and AR5 in 2014. At the time of submission, AR6 was expected to be completed in...
So, what next for the IPCC in terms of its future assessment reports? Sophie Yeo writes: The panel, set up in 1988, will be tackling the questions of a typical midlife crisis: what’s my purpose? Am I going about it in the right way? Does anyone really care about me? The DailyCli...