| G. O. Obasi, E. Dowdeswell - 1998 - 72 pages
...(which causes droughts and floods in many areas) was unusual in the context of the last 120 years. 4. THE BALANCE OF EVIDENCE SUGGESTS A DISCERNIBLE HUMAN INFLUENCE ON GLOBAL CLIMATE Any human-induced effect on climate will be superimposed on the background "noise" of natural climate... | |
| Peter H. Gleick - 1998 - 326 pages
...significant and "unlikely to be entirely natural in origin" (IPCC 1996a). The IPCC goes on to conclude, "The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." Many uncertainties remain. Future emissions of greenhouse gases and their longevity in the atmosphere... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - 1998 - 128 pages
...precipitation and flooding in some regions and more severe aridity m other areas The IPCC concluded thai The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate - The warming is expected to expand the geographical ranges of malaria and dengue lever and to open... | |
| Ing-Marie Gren, R. Kerry Turner, Fredrik Wulff - 2000 - 242 pages
...The findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (Houghton et al. 1996) confirm that 'the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate' and that 'more convincing recent evidence for the attribution of a human effect on climate is emerging...',... | |
| Peter Day, Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1999 - 196 pages
...same period (an average rate three to six times faster than that of the last 100 yearsl. It concluded that ' the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate'. Although confidence in the modelling has increased, there remain many uncertainties which make it difficult... | |
| George E. Marcus - 1999 - 460 pages
...those attacks the conclusion would have been stronger, not weaker, as industry alleges. The conclusion that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate" was adopted under extreme duress at the Madrid IPCC plenary, with Saudi Arabia threatening to block... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science - 1999 - 1158 pages
...latest international scientific assessment prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — that 'the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." Put another way, in the view of the vast majority of US and international climate scientists, it is... | |
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