100th post!: A historical perspective on the IPCC

Over at Environmental History Resources, Exploring Environmental History has a podcast on "The IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report: a historical perspective" (Podcast 54, 3 October 2013):

On 27 September 2013 the The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its highly anticipated summary for policymakers, in advance of its fifth assessment report that will be published in early 2014. This special episode of the podcast, explores briefly the origins of the organisation that produced this landmark report and, in more detail, the difficult international negotiations that have used the IPCC’s findings since its inception. This historical overview ends with the question whether we can learn anything from previous problems of atmospheric pollution, in this case the Great London Smog and the ozone hole, to tackle global warming.

The podcast concludes with a brief interview of historical climatologist Dagomar Degroot and his response to the summary of the fifth assessment report from the perspective of climate history.

Of less historic import, not only is this the last post of 2013--it is also the 100th post of the Environment, Law, and History Blog, which went online last May. Thanks for reading, please send in news and information, and please let me know if you're interested in writing!