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APNewsBreak: Chemical weapons watchdog wants Syria inspections by Oct. 1
• THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The global chemical weapons watchdog is calling for inspections of Syria's chemical arsenal to begin by Tuesday.
• The draft decision of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons obtained by The Associated Press also authorizes the body to inspect "any other site identified by a State Party as having been involved in the Syrian chemical weapons program, unless deemed unwarranted by the Director-General."
• That goes beyond usual practice as the organization only inspects sites that have been declared by member states.
• The draft, being discussed by the organization's executive council Friday night, calls for the destruction of all Syria's chemical weapons and equipment to be completed by "the first half of 2014."
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Climate report by international panel says warming 'extremely likely' man-made
• STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Scientists can now say with extreme confidence that human activity is the dominant cause of the global warming observed since the 1950s, a new report by an international scientific group said Friday.
• Calling man-made warming "extremely likely," the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change used the strongest words yet on the issue as it adopted its assessment on the state of the climate system.
• In its previous assessment, in 2007, the U.N.-sponsored panel said it was "very likely" that global warming was man-made.
• It now says the evidence has grown thanks to more and better observations, a clearer understanding of the climate system and improved models to analyze the impact of rising temperatures.
• "Our assessment of the science finds that the atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amount of snow and ice has diminished, the global mean sea level has risen and the concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased," said Qin Dahe, co-chair of the working group that wrote the report.
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