U.N. Climate Panel Revising Minimum Global Warming Upwards

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release a new report on climate change on February 2nd that revises the minimum estimated increase in global temperatures since their last estimate in 2001.

Also, the 2,500 scientists who contributed to the report are 90 percent sure that human activities are to blame for a warming over the past 50 years.

The new report is likely to foresee a rise in temperatures of 2 to 4.5 Celsius (3.6-8.1 Fahrenheit) this century, with about 3 Celsius (5.4F) most likely. The European Union says any temperature rise above 2C (3.6F) will cause "dangerous" change, for instance with more heatwaves like in Europe in 2003 that killed 35,000 people.

New U.N. Climate Panel Report