Two news services say they have obtained drafts of a report, on weather extremes, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change due out officially in a few weeks. Or, if not the whole report, the 20-page summary.
- AP – Seth Borenstein: Panel says wild weather worsens ;Filed from DC with the overline “APNewsbreak,” a sign the service regards this as an excloo. The money line up high: “..the report paints a wild future for a world already weary of weather catastrophes costing billions of dollars. The report says costs will rise and perhaps some locations will become “increasingly marginal as places to live.” One doesn’t think one can be so specific, but the news stories on drought-smacked Texas ranchers scrapping just to get hay from Oklahoma for their distressed cattle come to mind.
- AFP – Climate change ‘will boost disasters’: UN report ; This says AFP got multivolume report’s 20-page summary, not the whole pile. Maybe second, maybe first, maybe one of many, one cannot tell. One does learn fro a well-placed source that the AP has only the summary too – and got it a few days ago. The AFP’s unsigned (if there’s a byline I haven’t seen it) story puts the expressions of climate instability succinctly in the lede – we’re on for more heatwves, wildfires, floods and cyclones. Doesn’t say anything about freak October snowstorms.
And just because it is, marginally, pertinent to this news:
- Rolling Stone Politics Blog – Julian Brookes: Wingnut Watch: October Snow Ends Climate Change Debate ; That hed, if you wish not to look at the story after reading the thing at face value, has a tongue in its cheek.
– Charlie Petit
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