...in great detail (Houghton et al. 1990, 1992, 1996), the IPCC made in 1995 its famous statement that "the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate. "In fact, one could argue that "there has been a shift from absurd statements to uncertainty at the...

...change. Through the 1990s, the IPCC issued a series of climate assessments and officially concluded, "The balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate." The panel concluded that world climate has warmed an average of 1 degree F, and another 2- to 6.5-degree...

...the result of human activity. Indeed, in 1996 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded 'the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate'." Scientists believe that global warming could result in greater extremes, especially in El Nino and...

...the committee recognized that uncertainties remained in key factors of the calculations, it felt that "the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global warming." This conclusion, which went further than any previous statement, balanced the committee's...

...temperature increase during the last century "is unlikely to be entirely natural in origin" and that "the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate."2 These conclusions are in their Second Assessment Report, a document that received contributions...

...because there are uncertainties in key factors. These include the magnitude and patterns of long-term natural variability and the time-evolving pattern...is a discernible human influence on global climate. (IPCC 1995) Six years on, the IPCC 2001 report is less circumspect in its findings and says with confidence,...

...because there are uncertainties in key factors. These include the magnitude and patterns of long-term natural variability and the time-evolving pattern...is a discernible human influence on global climate. Even this careful statement was too much for some (eg Lomborg, 2001), but diere is certainly a massive...

...interests, in 1995 the IPCC gave the world its conclusions. The report's single widely quoted sentence said, "The balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate." The weasely wording showed the strain of political compromises that had watered down the original draft,...

...connected these two trends, leading them to conclude in its Second Assessment Report (IPCC 1996) that: "the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate." Five years later, the IPCC deepened its concern in its Third Assessment Report: "[There is] new and...

...the IPCC published its Second Assessment Report. This report is best known for its conclusion that "the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate change." The report identified the availability of "no regrets" options and other cost-effective strategies...