...principle knowledge claim made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — its statement on "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." The discursive positionings of the relevant players in the climate change debate could be mapped. In...

...conclusion regarding anthropogenic changes could be made. The corresponding statement in IPCC (1995) 'the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate. Any human-induced effect on climate will be superimposed on the background 'noise' of natural climate...

...factors (eg increases in greenhouse gas concentrations). 16 The second IPCC assessment report concluded, "The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." 17 The third report has increased the certainty that humans are responsible, noting that there is "new...

...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...

...Change, a 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...

...panel of scientists under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has determined that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." As economists, we believe that global climate change carries with it significant environmental, economic,...

...2 to 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...

...UN 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...

...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...

...the 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...