Today I started my research by visiting sciencedaily.com and reading through their articles. The first article that immediately caught my attention was about the rising sea level and how it's rising 60% faster than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had predicted. (At this point I googled the IPCC and discovered that they're a scientific body that analyzes data collected on climate change throughout the world. They were created by the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organization in 1988.) The IPCC predicted that the sea level was rising at a rate of 2 mm per year, but researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Tempo Analytics and Laboratoire d'Etudes en Geophysique et Oceanographie Spatiales have found evidence that the sea level is actually rising at 3.2 mm per year.
Links:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121128093911.htm
http://www.ipcc.ch/organization/organization.shtml#.ULaAYzGe4tt
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