Climate Panel Cites Near Certainty on Warming

 The scientists, whose findings are reported in a draft summary of the next big United Nations climate report, largely dismiss a recent slowdown in the pace of warming, which is often cited by climate change doubters, attributing it most likely to short-term factors.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/science/earth/extremely-likely-that-human-activity-is-driving-climate-change-panel-finds.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

• Fifth Assessment Report
• SREX
• SRREN
• Fourth Assessment Report

The Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) will provide an update of knowledge on the scientific, technical and socio-economic aspects of climate change. It will be composed of three working group reports and a Synthesis Report (SYR). The outline and content can be found in the AR5 reference document and SYR Scoping document.

The Working Group (WG) Reports and Synthesis Report will be completed in 2013/2014:

WG I: The Physical Science Basis
         23-26 September 2013, Stockholm, Sweden

WG II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
         25-29 March 2014, Yokohama, Japan

WG III: Mitigation of Climate Change
         7-11 April 2014, Berlin, Germany

http://www.ipcc.ch/