The latest scientific research indicates global warming is happening faster than recent United Nations reports projected, while China and India's rapid economic growth means carbon emissions are rising quicker than expected, a Labor-backed panel into climate change has heard.
Summer in the northern hemisphere over the past century had extended by 12 days, but in some areas, such as northern Norway, it was about six weeks longer, said Graeme Pearman, former chief of the CSIRO's atmospheric research.
"This is not something that's affecting people in 10, 20 or 30 years' time. It's now," he said. "The recent science has strengthened the concern that we may have underestimated the rate of change."
Mr Pearman was one of several speakers at the third public forum of the Climate Change Review, appointed by state and territory Labor governments and chaired by Ross Garnaut.
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