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Remarks from Caribbean Community Climate Change Center at Initiative for the Development of a Caribbean Regional Climate Change Strategy

In February of this year, seventeen years later, in its Fourth Assessment Report, the IPCC confirms:

“warming of the climate system is unequivocal”
rainfall patterns are changing, resulting in both drought and heavy precipitation events
sea level is rising at an accelerated rate, and
the frequency of stronger tropical cyclones has increased during the latter third of the last century and continuing into the current century.

THE LAUNCH OF THE INITIATIVE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CARIBBEAN REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGY - 18th October 2007