...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....

...(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:...

...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...

...statements represent an important shift from the previous IPCC report in 1996, which concluded that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." Mahlman of GFDL puts it this way: "It is my opinion that there is a better than 95 percent chance that...

...could have offset a still larger hitman-induced greenhouse wanning"; 2 Second Assessment Report 1995: "The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate"'. and 3 Third Assessment Report 2(KK): "Most of the observed warming in the past 50 years is attributable...

...Human Impact on Climate" by Thomas R. Karl and Kevin E. Trenberth Scientific American, December 1999 "The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." With these carefully chosen words, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (jointly supported...

...the warming observed over the last SO years is attributable to human activities. The SAR concluded: "The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate". Thai report also noted that the anthropogenic signal was still emerging from the background of natural...

...launched a massive assault against the final version of Chapter 8 of Working Group I,-which concluded that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate" (Houghton et al. 1996, 4). The accusations published in -widely read newspapers like the Wall Street...

...levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are necessarily a bad thing. The 1995 IPCC report did conclude that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate," and this was strengthened in the Third Assessment Report of 2001 to "there is new and stronger evidence...

...of observed global warming over the last 50 years, further strengthening the SAR's conclusion that the 'balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate' (IPCC 1995; reaffirmed in IPCC 2001).7 Warming over the last 100 years is unlikely to have been natural,...