| Horst Siebert - 2003 - 296 pages
...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... | |
| David R. Boyd - 2014 - 489 pages
...reducing greenhouse gas emissions.37 The second report from the IPCC, published in 1995, concluded, "The balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate."38 In response to growing public concern and stronger scientific evidence, the Kyoto Protocol... | |
| Harriet Bulkeley, Michele Merrill Betsill - 2005 - 258 pages
...the scope of natural variability have taken, or will take, place. The IPCC argues in contrast that 'the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on the global climate' (Houghton ef a/.1996: 5). In 1999, the Chairman of the IPCC suggested that it is... | |
| Willem B. Drees - 2003 - 364 pages
...indirectly caused a rise in temperature. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that 'the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on the climate' (Vellinga and Verseveld 1999: 2; Burton et al. 1998: xxi). Global warming brings about... | |
| Neil E. Harrison, Gary C. Bryner - 2004 - 410 pages
...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. [Emphasis added] The word "discernible" was not chosen lightly. The scientists recognized that policy... | |
| International Debate Education Association - 2004 - 254 pages
...Change (IPCC), an international body ser up to study possible global watming, has concluded that ". . . the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate." Computer models predict that continued global watming could have carastrophic effects. Changes in temperature... | |
| Chris C. Mooney - 2005 - 364 pages
...the decade since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) cautious 1995 statement that "the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate," the science of climate change has strengthened considerably. Even as industryfriendly "skeptics" questioned... | |
| Sean Cubitt - 2005 - 182 pages
...(IPCC) in 1988, which reported in 1990 and 1995, the latter report including the now famous statement 'the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate' (IPCC 1996, Summary for Policymakers). The guarded language is that of scientists, certainly, but also... | |
| Karl-Goran Maler - 2005 - 556 pages
...Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in its Second Assessment Report that "... the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate." 5 The recently released summary of the IPCC Third Assessment Report concludes that "there is new and... | |
| Dade W. Moeller - 2005 - 632 pages
...Children's Environmental Health 2002 International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources Concluded that "the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate" a follow-up report in 2001 cited "new and stronger evidence that most of the observed warming of the... | |
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