This new UNEP report warns that the pace and extent of climate change may exceed even the most sobering expectations voiced by IPCC fourth assessment report. It is based on findings of more than 400 major peer-reviewed scientific studies & research institutions over the last three years.

Climate Change Science Compendium 2009 reviews some 400 major scientific contributions to the understanding of Earth Systems and climate change that have been released through peer-reviewed literature, or from research institutions, over the last three years. According to the Compendium, the pace and scale of climate change may now be outstripping even the most sobering predictions of the last report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The analysis of the latest, peer-reviewed science indicates that many predictions at the upper end of the IPCC