Emissions Already Affecting Climate, Report Finds

Emissions Already Affecting Climate, Report Finds

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BRUSSELS, April 6 — Earth’s climate and ecosystems are already being affected, for better and mostly for worse, by the atmospheric buildup of smokestack and tailpipe gases that trap heat, top climate experts said today.

The conclusions came in the latest report from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which has tracked research on human-caused global warming since being created by the United Nations in 1988. In February, the panel released a report that for the first time concluded with 90-percent certainty that humans were the main cause of warming since 1950

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[edit on 6-4-2007 by xEphon]

The official empirical study is being released today at www.ipcc.ch...

I think that its important to note that they say that humans are the main cause since 1950. They're not debating whether or not the earth has been warming before this period but rather what the main cause of this warming is since 1950.

I guess only so much data can come out in support of human influenced warming before you have to take a step back and question...do our activities really have no effect?



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