...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...

...advisory body. The IPCC s main conclusion, featured in its Summary for Policymakers (SPM), states that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." This widely quoted, innocuous-sounding but ambiguous phrase has been misinterpreted by many to mean...

...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...

...aerosol cooling that the following statement has been made in the Second IPCC Assessment Report [1994]: "The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate". There is no doubt that today the human influence on climate is a reality. The problem, however, is...

...temperature since the late nineteenth century was 'unlikely to be entirely natural in origin', and that 'the balance of evidence ... suggests a discernible human influence on global climate' (IPCC, 1995, paragraph 2.4). This conclusion that there was anthropogenic global warming (that is,...