IPCC-Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

"To see a world in a grain of sand" -- William Blake - Auguries of Innocence

This blog focuses on the technology of desulfurization, but in the Web-enabled world we live in, everything connects to everything else. That’s why the work of the IPCC-Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (http://www.ipcc.ch/) is worth a look.

As described in the Wikipedia article, the IPCC’s work centers around achieving consensus on global policies that will (we hope) avert the looming disastrous effects of global warming.
(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change )

You, as a technologist, may not be interested in policy, but policy does tend to influence the direction of current research. So I invite you to glance at some of the reports available on their site.

In particular, browse the following …

IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios
Chapter 5: Emission Scenarios
5.5.2. Sulfur

source: http://www.grida.no/publications/other/ipcc_sr/?src=/climate/ipcc/emission/126.htm

Forward thinking oil majors like ChevronTexaco and Saudi Aramco recognize that it is in their best long-term interest to support the efforts of the IPCC. Scientists from these organizations participate with hundreds of others in several workgroups to produce science-based policy that will, if implemented, benefit the entire planet.

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