...understanding of climate change. In its Second Assessment Report, released in 1995, the IPCC argued that 'the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate' (Houghton et al. 1996: vii). This finding effectively silenced debates within the negotiations as to...

...United Nations-sponsored body, claimed 'scientific consensus' on the fact of global warming and that 'the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate' (quoted in Singer 1999: 1). The phrasing is significant: it is not claimed that this is a 'scientific...

...Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), examined this and other evidence. They have concluded, "The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." The IPCC scientists project that during our children's and grandchildren's lifetimes global warming...

...latest IPCC report acknowledges the uncertainties of our risk assessments. Although it concludes that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate" (IPCC 2001, p. 3), it also notes that our ability to quantify the human influence on global climate...

...as many as 6 degrees Fahrenheit l1 to 3.5 degrees Celsiusl by 2100. In 1995, the IPCC declared that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." In 1999, the American Geophysical Union, a prestigious group of earth and space scientists, stated...

...results point towards a detectable human influence on global climate' to the remarkably similar phrase 'the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate'. In the event that disagreement remains, the IPCC's principles provide for differing views to be 'explained...

...years is attributable to human activities. The 1995 IPCC climate-science assessment report concluded: "The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." There is now a longer and more closely scrutinized observed temperature record. Climate models have...

...b) Hydrological and Storm-Related Indicators In 1996, the IPCC second scientific assessment stated, "The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." This cautious statement represented the consensus view of those scientists working in WGI. It was based...

...of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stated in the Second Assessment Report that 'the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate' [5], and was sufficiently confident by the time of the Third Assessment Report to conclude that 'there...

...voordat het IPCC op basis van langdurige en complexe analyses van waarnemingen durfde te beweren dat "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate". Opmerkelijk is ook de behandeling door Schuurmans van een zeer breed scala van mogelijk kwetsbare onderdelen...