City Life Magazine 09 | Page 17

FEATURES 17 IPCC Reports: climate is changing, but we? A United Nations report on climate change just released, concludes that there may still be some time margin for limiting global warming to prevent an increase of about 2° C degrees in the atmosphere, which could avoid the worst effects on climate change. But to get good results extraordinary adjustments to our current energy infrastructure we’ve to make: we should focus efforts, energies and timing much faster than we are doing right now. This, in all probability, would require the use a controversial and unproven technology for the greenhouse gases extraction from the atmosphere. In recent months a new report, the third in the series, has been issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations. The first of these, validated by scientific truth the current climate change; the second one, investigated the effects of this change