| Janet N. Abramovitz, Worldwatch Institute - 2001 - 196 pages
...of scientists, released a draft summary of its Third Assessment Report. 14 The panel concludes that "there is new and stronger evidence that most of the...last 50 years is attributable to human activities." 15 It projects a rate of warming that is much higher than that observed during the twentieth century,... | |
| 2001 - 36 pages
...world's leading scientists. The IPCC concluded that humans are changing the Earth's climate, and that "there is new and stronger evidence that most of the...last 50 years is attributable to human activities." According to the IPCC, continued emissions of greenhouse gases could cause a 2.5° to 10° Fahrenheit... | |
| Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Working Group I. - 2001 - 416 pages
...l.7.5.2 and 7.6.l • Chapter 8.4.2 •Chapter8.6.3 and Chapter l2.3.2 -Chapter 8.5.5, 8.7.l and 8. 7.5 There is new and stronger evidence that most of the...last 50 years is attributable to human activities SPM Page Cross-Reference: SPM Topic • Chapter Section l58 Chapeau: "The SAR concluded: The balance... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science - 2001 - 176 pages
...consistent with a warmer ocean occupying more space because of the thermal expansion of water. • There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributed to human activities. The 1995 IPCC climatescience assessment report concluded: "The balance... | |
| M. T. J. Kok, Marcel Kok - 2002 - 252 pages
...human influence on the climate. The most recent IPCC report (IPCC, 2001a), for instance, states that there is new and stronger evidence that most of the...50 years is attributable to human activities. The result of this anthropogenic climate change is that society is now forced to reduce its emissions of... | |
| Nijavalli H. Ravindranath, Jayant A. Sathaye - 2002 - 98 pages
...decades. One of the most important conclusions of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC is that, "there is new and stronger evidence that most of the...50 years is attributable to human activities." The report also states that the 20th century has contributed significantly to the observed sea level rise.... | |
| Janet N. Abramovitz, Worldwatch Institute - 2002 - 222 pages
...according to the latest assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.31 Concluding that "there is new and stronger evidence that most of the...50 years is attributable to human activities," the panel projects that average global surface temperature will increase by 1.4-5.8 degrees Celsius between... | |
| Stephen Bede Scharper - 2002 - 164 pages
...Hemisphere is likely to have been greater than that for any other century in the last thousand years.... There is new and stronger evidence that most of the...last 50 years is attributable to human activities. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2001 We, in the human family, are part of the unfolding... | |
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