Scientists are to hold an emergency summit to warn the world’s politicians they are being too timid in their response to global warming. Climate experts from across the world will gather in Copenhagen next month to agree a stark message to policy makers, which they hope will break the political deadlock on efforts to curb rising temperatures. The meeting follows ‘disturbing’ studies that suggest global warming could strike harder and faster than expected. It comes ahead of a year of high-level political discussions on climate change, which climax with international negotiations in Copenhagen in December, where officials will try to hammer out a successor to the Kyoto protocol. Katherine Richardson, a marine biologist at the University of Copenhagen, who is organising next month’s event, said: ‘This is not a regular scientific conference. This is a deliberate attempt to influence policy.’ The meeting will publish an update to the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Richardson said the IPCC report was ‘wishy-washy’ on issues such as sea level rise. ‘The IPCC talks of a 40cm sea rise this century. Well, if the consensus now is a rise of a metre or more then […]