Editorial | Global Warming

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, February, 2007

As most of the world anxiously awaits the latest international update on climate science, Congress investigates allegations that the Bush administration suppressed and censored global-warming research by U.S. scientists.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, established in 1988 by the United Nations and World Meterological Organization, today is scheduled to release the first of four climate-change reports this year.

A summary of the published, peer-reviewed science as of December 2005, this first installment is expected to link global warming definitively to humans burning fossil fuels. It also will attempt to predict the extent of temperature and sea level rise in the coming decades.

Future reports will address impacts, adaptation, regional...