Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a group of scientists chosen by governments and other large groups from around the world who study the way that humans are making the Earth heat up unnaturally. The group was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), two organizations of the United Nations.

The IPCC shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President of the United States Al Gore who won for working on the same problems.^[1]

A lot of IPCC work is publishing reports about the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),^[2] an international agreement that human inventions and chemistry may make the Earth too hot to live on. The UNFCCC was the beginning of the Kyoto Protocol. Members of the IPCC read, write, and calculate as much as they can. Only member states of the WMO and UNEP may be members of IPCC. A lot of professors trust the IPCC work.^[3][4]

1. ↑ "The Nobel Peace Prize for 2007". Archived from the original on 2008-09-16. Retrieved 2008-03-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
2. ↑ "Principles governing IPCC work" (PDF). Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 2006-04-28. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-12-15. Retrieved 2007-07-24.
3. ↑ "A guide to facts and fiction about climate change". The Royal Society. March 2005. Archived from the original on 2007-03-11. Retrieved 2007-07-24.
4. ↑ The Science of Climate Change. The Royal Society. 2001-05-17. ISBN 978-0-85403-558-8. Archived from the original on 2007-03-11. Retrieved 2007-07-24.