UN REPORT ON GLOBAL WARMING

This story is going to be almost as many places today as the one about the crucifixion. Here's a decent breakdown:

UN draft points to human hand in climate change
Andrew C. Revkin, April 5, 2007 (International Herald Tribune)

WHO
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the United Nations

WHAT
Detailed follow-up to IPCC 4th Report issued in February states that there is “high confidence” anthropogenic (human caused) gas emissions contribute to climate changes such as longer growing seasons and shrinking glaciers.
Report: "Based on satellite observations since the early 1980s, there is high confidence that there has been a trend in many regions towards earlier greening of vegetation in the spring and increased net primary production linked to longer growing seasons and increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations…"

WHEN
The report is be officially released on Good Friday. It is an assessment of the best, up-to-this-moment information on the subject of climate change (or, as Amory Lovins calls it, “global weirding”). The report states there is a 90% chance most warming since 1950 is from an ongoing buildup of heat-trapping emissions in the atmosphere and names specific effects, risks and options.
Report: "Coasts are very likely to be exposed to increasing risks due to climate change and sea-level rise, and the effect will be exacerbated by increasing human-induced pressures on coastal areas."

WHERE
Planet Earth. (The report will be released in Brussels.)

WHY
The report describes many changes and concludes that though some could be beneficial, most will, over time, prove harmful. For instance, it describes "some benefits to health such as fewer deaths from cold" but predicts "increased deaths, disease and injury due to heat waves, floods, storms, fires and droughts…"
Report: "Poor communities can be especially vulnerable…because they tend to be concentrated in relatively high-risk areas, have more limited coping capacities, and can be more dependent on climate-sensitive resources such as local water and food supplies."

QUOTES
"Trillions of dollars will be invested in infrastructure in developing countries alone over the coming years," [Achim Steiner, UN under secretary general and executive director of the UN Environment Program] said. "The challenge is to ensure that climate change impacts are factored into investment decisions at the outset so that, say a road, railway or power plant, is planned with climate change in mind."