...present (actual) and from the present to 2100 (projected). The preliminary finding in 1995 concluded that 'the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate'. The conclusion reached in 2"(i] was considerably more alarming, L'sing six different projections about...

...yes than in earlier IPCC reports. While the second IPCC report of 1996 offered the cautious statement that "the balance of evidence . . . suggests a discernible human influence on global climate", we read in the third report that "most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely due...

...Climate Change The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (1PCC, 1996) assesses that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." Further, trends in greenhouse gas emissions will, in IPCC's estimation, cause an increase in average...

...Going beyond the 1995 IPCC climate-science assessment report, which had concluded for the first time that the "balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate," the 2001 IPCC climatescience assessment report provided even more concrete evidence that socalled natural...

...strategies' (O'Neill, et al, 2001, 32). It first reported in 1990. In its 1995 report the IPPC noted that 'the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate (IPCC, 1996, 4). By the time of its 2000 report the IPCC had strengthened its position to say that...

...effects of major volcanic events, which release particulate matter into the atmosphere. The SAR had said that "The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate.' The TAR says that "There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed in the last...

...right. Nevertheless, the IPCC felt sufficiently sure of the relationship to declare, in its 1995 report, that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate;" and in its follow-on report, issued in 2001, the IPCC strengthened this assessment, claiming that "most...

...agree to the final version. The salient point of the executive summary in the IPCC report of 1996 was: "The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate". This statement led to the discussion and finalisation of the Kyoto Protocol as part of the Framework...

...(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001). Already, in its earlier 1995 report, the IPCC concluded, "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." See Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 1995, Second Assessment Report (Cambridge:...

...that characterised the IPCC Second Assessment and served as the smoking gun for the Kyoto agreement: The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate. This is simply a short restatement of the basic agreement with the addition of a small measure of attribution....