(9 Mar 2009) SHOTLIST Copenhagen, 9 March 2009 1. Various of Copenhagen city centre 2. Various of people cycling along street 3. Venue of climate conference 4. Various of sign welcoming scientists to conference 5. Courtyard outside Prof Katherine Richardson's office 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Katherine Richardson, Climate Conference Chairperson: "I'm sorry to tell you that I don't think we're going to change the picture painted by the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change). Certainly, certainly, the message from the natural science, the part of science that looks at how the climate system really works, isn't very good. There actually isn't any good news to be found there." FILE: Date and location unknown 7. Power station chimneys belching out smoke 8. Chimneys emitting plumes of smoke Copenhagen, 9 March 2009 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Katherine Richardson, Climate Conference Chairperson: "I'd like to see them get to the point where we actually start removing CO2 from the atmosphere, because I can see what CO2 in the atmosphere is doing to the oceans, even at the concentration that it has today, and I think it's too high." 10. People walking through main boulevard in Copenhagen 11. City centre STORYLINE Climate scientists are preparing for bad news as they review the latest data on global warming at a conference this week in Copenhagen, one of the organisers said on Monday. The three-day conference starting in the Danish capital on Tuesday aims to update the science on climate change since the last United Nations report two years ago. Its conclusions will be presented to policy-makers at a key international climate summit in December. However, Katherine Richardson of the University of Copenhagen, which is hosting the conference, made a sombre prediction for the talks. "I'm sorry to tell you that I don't think we're going to change the picture painted by the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change)," she said. The scientific cornerstone for the December talks is a 2007 report of the International Panel on Climate Change. It collected the work of more than two-thousand scientists and listed the likely effects of global warming: arid regions will grow drier, rising seas will flood coastal areas, melting glaciers will flood communities downstream and then dry up the source of future water supplies, and up to 30 percent of all plant and animal species may become extinct. However, since then, new evidence has emerged showing that ice caps in the Arctic and Antarctic are melting, which threatens to dramatically raise the level of the oceans and flood coastal cities and low-lying islands. Sea-level rise is one of the key topics on the program for the scientific congress this week, but there are many other areas in the IPCC report that need updating. "Certainly, the message from the natural science, the part of science that looks at how the climate system really works, isn't very good," Richardson said. Politicians meeting in Copenhagen for the UN climate talks in December will discuss a new global agreement on greenhouse gas emissions to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. While emphasising that it was up to political leaders to decide how to press forward in the battle against climate change, Richardson said she wanted to see much more than the current target of a two percent cut in carbon emissions. "I'd like to see them get to the point where we actually start removing CO2 from the atmosphere," she said. The conclusions will be published around 1 June. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/616e397a35fc494215e8bc32392df19a