Various: All the major media outlets report today on the public recommendations of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC said temperatures were probably going to increase by 1.8-4C (3.2-7.2F) by the end of the century with sea levels expected to rise by 28-43cm. The summary was issued earlier today with the four main reports explaining the science behind their recommendations, will be released in four parts throughout the year. The BBC quotes NOAA atmospheric scientist Susan Soloman, one of the lead authors of the IPCC report as saying "We can be very confident that the net effect of human activity since 1750 has been one of warming." The Guardian talked to Anote Tong, the president of Kiribati, a group of 33 Pacific coral atolls threatened by rising seas, "The question is, what can we do now?" said Tong, "There's very little we can do about arresting the process." A shorter piece looks at rising sea levels in particular.

The Guardian also reports on an attempt by the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank partly funded by some oil companies, to pay scientists $10,000 plus travel expenses if they would decry the IPCC statements. "It's a desperate attempt by an organization who wants to distort science for their own political aims," said David Viner of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.