...2,000 of the world's leading climate change scientists from more than 50 countries, concluded that "the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate." The IPCC Assessment represents the best synthesis of the science of climate change. It concludes: •...

...certainly some natural variability of the world climate (IPCC 1995:133ff.) it is by now clear that "the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate" (IPCC 1995:5). The joint products of human economic action thus contribute to the observed changes...

...recognized at a political level. In 1995, an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change agreed that, The balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate' - 'discernible' being accepted after lengthy debate on the alternatives of 'appreciable', 'measurable',...

...every corner of the globe, summed up their findings in this dry but historic bit of understatement: "The balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate." That is to say, we are heating up the planet — substantially. If we don't reduce emissions of carbon...

...better with the historical record. Partly for this reason, the IPCC (1995, p. 22) was able to warn that, 'the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate'. Still, even today the science of climate change is riddled with uncertainties: about the extent and...

...The second (and most recent) IPCC assessment on climate change contends that, and for the first time, "[T]he balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate" (IPCC, 1995, p. 22), and that climate change likely will continue. Many (but not all) scientists endorse...

...climate on earth. Nevertheless, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that "..the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate " [Houghton et ai, 1996]. It also stated that due to human behaviour "climate is expected to continue...

...subjective probabilities. After a number of sentences highlighting such uncertainties, the report concluded: "Nevertheless, the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on the climate." The reasons for this now-famous subjective judgment were many. These include a well-validated...

...signals are appearing among the noise', as one member put it. The central conclusion in the summary is: 'The balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on climate'.The members of Working Group 1 worked over this sentence for hours at their final meeting...

...long-term natural variability and the time-evolving pattern of forcing by, and response to, changes in concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols, and...is a discernible human influence on global climate. (Houghton et al. 1996, 5; emphasis added) Three-quarters of this paragraph consists of caveats about...