uaf helps draft ipcc report

Our education reporter did a story this weekend about University of Alaska researcher John Walsh's role in drafting the IPCC's latest report.

John Walsh, a climate researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, was one of the lead authors of the recently released international climate report, which warns of widespread famine, flood and animal extinction if global warming isn’t checked.

Walsh, the director of the Center for Global Change and Arctic System Research at the UAF International Arctic Research Center, is among the lead authors of the second volume of the Fourth Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a network of 2,000 scientists brought together by the United Nations.

The 1,500-page volume, a 20-page summary of which was released earlier this month in Brussels, Belgium, analyzes how climate change is affecting natural and human systems. It also examines future effects of climate change and how adaptation can reduce those effects. Walsh was a lead author of the chapter on polar regions.

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