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Article: Met Office leading way in combating climate change
- Article from:
- Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
- Article date:
- April 9, 2007
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Politicians from across the globe now often gather to exchange
puzzled, sincere looks over the climate change conundrum.
When they do, chances are they will be clutching a weighty
document penned, at least in part, by Westcountry-based scientists.
The recent United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) summit in Paris was a case in point.
Three years in the making, the three-volume report global leaders
discussed was the work of hundreds of scientists from more than 130
countries. At least 2,500 expert reviewers looked over the draft
versions.
Out of the 100 lead authors, ten are based at the Met Office in
Exeter.
When the report's findings were made public, emphatically ...