{"id":97,"date":"2013-09-27T19:07:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T19:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/?p=97"},"modified":"2017-01-25T08:54:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T13:54:45","slug":"in-the-news-u-n-climate-panel-endorses-ceiling-on-global-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/2013\/09\/27\/in-the-news-u-n-climate-panel-endorses-ceiling-on-global-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"U.N. climate panel endorses ceiling on global emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/28\/science\/global-climate-change-report.html?hp\">New York Times reports<\/a> that the world\u2019s top climate scientists have formally embraced an upper limit on greenhouse gases for the first time, &#8220;establishing a target level at which humanity must stop spewing them into the atmosphere or face irreversible and potentially catastrophic climatic changes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The paper reported on the unveiling of the latest United Nations assessment of climate science and noted that experts warned that climate changes are likely to\u00a0accelerate and &#8220;expressed virtual certainty that human activity is the main cause.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClimate change is the greatest challenge of our time,\u201d said Thomas F. Stocker, co-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations-sponsored group of scientists that produced the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/templatelab.com\/climatechange-WGIAR5-SPM-Approved-27Sep2013\/\">report<\/a>. \u201cIn short, it threatens our planet, our only home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports that the world\u2019s top climate scientists have formally embraced an upper limit on greenhouse gases for the first time, &#8220;establishing a target level at which humanity must stop spewing them into the atmosphere or face irreversible and potentially catastrophic climatic changes.&#8221; The paper reported on the unveiling of the latest<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/2013\/09\/27\/in-the-news-u-n-climate-panel-endorses-ceiling-on-global-emissions\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change-2","category-news-stories","tag-climate-change"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/2201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}