In a carefully-orchestrated media event in Stockholm, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its fifth Assessment Report (AR5), which repeats and expands the dire warnings of earlier reports that the world faces catastrophic global warming, caused principally by rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere. Hundreds of press, radio and television journalists descended on the Münchenbryggeriet (Munich Brewery) conference centre, Stockholm for the release, …
