...underlying report (Source Notes will provide cross references to the report's chapters) An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of...(SAR4). additional data from new studies of current and palacoclirnates, improved analysis of data sets, more rigorous evaluation of their quality, and comparisons...

...several observations based on their extensive global database. According to their study: 1. An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of...Since the release of the Second Assessment Report (S AR4), additional data from new studies of current and palaeoclimates, improved analysis of data...

...improved our understanding of climate change. The third IPCC assessment report notes that "an increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of...warming world and other changes in the climate system," including widespread decreases in snow cover and ice extent and a rise in sea level of 0.1-0.2 meters...

...the last 50 years was attributable to human activities. An increasing body of observations gives a picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system. These changes are presented in Box 1. The human dimensions of climate change It is clear that human...

...findings were corroborated in the IPCC's Third Assessment Report (TAR), which states that "an increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of...warming world and other changes in the climate system" and that "there is new and stronger evidence that most of the wanning observed over the last 50 years...

...experts around the world. After its second and third reports, the panel concluded that "an increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of...warming world and other changes in the climate system" and "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on climate change."13 There is...

...economic systems have been affected'. This leads to the IPCC's main conclusion that 'an increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of...warming world and other changes in the climate system'. 2.2 Why is the climate changing? Our confidence in answering this question is growing, though considerable...

...(IPCC, 200 la) provides findings on global climate change projections. These include: • An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of...warming world and other changes in the climate system. • The global average surface temperature has increased over the 20"' century by about 0.6°C. •...

...The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) notes an increasing body of observations giving a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system, and new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable...

...January 2001. The credo of the IPCC is proclaimed in the first lines of the report: 'An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of...warming world and other changes in the climate system'. The reference to an increasing body of observations attests that we are not dealing here with hypotheses:...