What are the scientific facts on climate change ?
The climate change specialists meet under the UN in a worldwide organization
called the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). Together they
publish periodically
an extensive report providing the current scientific consensus on global climate
change.
The last one, the "Third Assessment Report" on climate change, was
released by the IPCC in early 2001. It contains thousands of page written
in the scientific
jargon for global climate change specialists. It is summarized in a language
for non-specialists
at www.greenfacts.org.
In short, it is very likely that human emissions are affecting our climate
and causing climate change. The exact extent is largely unknown, especially
at a regional scale.
But it is clear that the more greenhouse gases are emitted,
the more drastic the consequences of global climate change are likely to become.
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