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Current Challenges in Climate Science (Introduction to IPCC WG1)
BC3-UPV/EHU Summer School 2014
Climate Change: Understanding the Challenge
Donostia - San Sebastián, 14 July 2014
Sérgio H. Faria Ikerbasque Research Professor
Ramón y Cajal Fellow
BC3 - Basque Centre for Climate Change
Bilbao, Spain
BC3 Sum
mer S
chool 2014
1972
Stockholm Conference
and foundation of UNEP
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1843: Invention of the telegraph
1853: 1st International Maritime Conference, Brussels
1882-83: 1st International Polar Year (1st IPY)
1879: 2nd IMC, Rome
1873: 1st International Meteorological Congress (1st IMC), Vienna
1932-33: 2nd IPY
1951
IMO is incorporated to UN as WMO
(World Meteorological Organization) 1957-58
International Geophysical Year (formerly 3rd IPY)
1979
1st World Climate Conference
(1st WCC), Geneva Climate Research Milestones
WW1
WW2
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1987: Montreal Protocol
1997: Kyoto Protocol
1995: 2nd IPCC Assessment Report
1988: WMO/UNEP establish the IPCC
2007: 4th IPCC Ass. Report
2007-08: 3rd IPY
2014
5th IPCC Assessment Report
1990: 1st IPCC Assessment Report
2001: 3rd IPCC Assessment Report
2009
3rd WCC, Geneva
Climate Research Milestones
1992: Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro
2002
Earth Summit, Johannesburg
2012
Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20)
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1st: Polar regions are the “canary in the coal mine” of Earth’s climate
John Scott Holding a Canary Cage Used in Mines Rescue Training. Courtesy of the Museum of Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, England (copyright unknown)