...presented. INTRODUCTION The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (1995) has reported that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate". Emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, are the main contributors to this expected change...

...the guarded consensus reached by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1995 that 'The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate through emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.' The differences in opinion about this...

...the IPCC drew the following oft-quoted conclusion in its Second Assessment Report published in 1996: 'the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate' (IPCC 1996a). The Third Assessment Report of the IPCC strengthened the scientific basis for believing...

...years is attributed to human activities. The 1995 IPCC climatescience assessment report concluded: "The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." Although many of the sources of uncertainty identified in 1995 still remain to some degree, new evidence...

...appreciable human influence on global climate'. By the time the meeting finished, the same title read 'The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate'. As for the header right at the top of the executive summary, 'Significant new findings since IPCC 1990',...

...aerosol effects have aligned more closely with observations; the IPCC's most recent report states that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate" (Houghton et al. 1996, 5). But despite the appearance of scientific consensus and moves toward a binding...

...conclusion of third assessment report of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate" seems to be reasonably founded. In a thorough statistical study, the University of Frankfurt has proved...

...than in the climate change issues. Even IPCC scientists are cautious in their wording stating that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate" (Houghton et al. 1996:4). Skeptics believe that their views are excluded, arguing that IPCC results...

...in Geneva in August 1996. For the first time the IPCC concluded, in a carefully worded passage, that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." SAR also detailed some likely results of climate change, including fluctuations in agricultural activity,...

...conclusion regarding anthropogenic changes could be made. The corresponding statement in IPCC (1995) 'the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human...superimposed on the background 'noise' of natural climate variability, which results from internal fluctuations and from external causes such as solar...