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NOAA new report finds that the Arctic continues to show evidence of a shift to change According to a new report released by NOAA and its partners, cooler temperatures in the summer of 2013 across the central Arctic Ocean, Greenland and northern Canada moderated the record sea ice loss and extensive melting that the surface of the Greenland ice sheet experienced last year. Yet there continued to be regional extremes, including record low May snow cover in Eurasia and record high summer temperatures in Alaska.June-August 2013 temperature compared to the 2007- 2012 average. Map by NOAA Climate.gov, based on NCEP Reanalysis data from NOAA ESRL Physical Sciences Division / Image Credit: NOAA"The Arctic caught a bit of a break in 2013 from the recent string of record-breaking warmth and ice melt of the last decade," said David M. Kennedy, NOAA's deputy under secretary for operations, during a press briefing today at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco. "But the relatively cool year in some parts of the Arctic does little to offset the long-term trend of the last 30 years: the Arctic is warming rapidly, becoming greener and experiencing a variety of changes, affecting people, the physical ...

Predictions of sea level rise could become more accurate, thanks to new insight into how glacier movement is affected by melting ice in summer.

The US Department of Defence has announced its 2013 Arctic Strategy, which will be an 8-point approach to maintaining peace and security in a new frontier that climatic forces are poised to open in the coming years

Produced by the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and Globaia and funded by the UN Foundation for the launch of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report.

IPCC Report Launched United Nations officials have called for a global response to combat climate change, following new findings by a scientific panel stating it is "extremely likely" that humans have been the dominant cause of unprecedented global warming since 1950. "The heat is on. Now we must act,"Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a videomessageto the launch of the report of the UN-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC report, released on September 27, 2013 in Stockholm, Sweden, calls global warming "unequivocal," and confirms that there is a 95 per cent probability that most of the warming since 1950 has been caused by human influence. The reportstresses that evidence for this has grown "thanks to more and better observations, an improved understanding of the climate system response and improved climate models." "The IPCC report demonstrates that we must greatly reduce global emissions in order to avoid the worst effects of climate change," said the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Michel Jarraud. "It also contains important new scientific knowledge that can be used to produce actionable climate information and services for assisting society to adapt to the impacts of climate change." In itsreport, the IPCC notes that ...

Ban Ki-Moon's message on launch of the IPCC report

UN IPCC Report - Key findings

IPCC Projections of Temperature

Experts debate global warming issues

It is extremely likely (95-100% probability) that most of the warming since 1950 has been due to human influence.