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Summary of the IPCC Climate Change 2007 report

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For those interested in what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said on the global state of climate change, you should read the summary report.  Again, the full report is due out by the IPCC later in the year.

Key parts of the summary include:

“..leading to very high confidence (9 out of 10 change of being correct) that the global averaged net effect of human activities since 1750 has been one of warming…” -p. 5

Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea levels..” -p. 5

Satellite data since 1978 show that annual average Artic sea ice extent has shrunk by 2.7% per decade, with larger decreases in summer of 7.4% per decade…” -p. 8

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3 Comments

  1. sal

    March 3, 2007 @ 10:45 pm

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    Should be time now that people, industry and particularly the government now realize that human activities are causing this global climate change.

  2. Ray Horaney

    April 28, 2013 @ 9:40 pm

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    Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions, or in the distribution of weather around the average conditions (i.e., more or fewer extreme weather events). Climate change is caused by factors that include oceanic processes (such as oceanic circulation), biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics and volcanic eruptions, and human-induced alterations of the natural world.^

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  3. Jae Savko

    April 29, 2013 @ 2:52 am

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    Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions, or in the distribution of weather around the average conditions (i.e., more or fewer extreme weather events). Climate change is caused by factors that include oceanic processes (such as oceanic circulation), biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics and volcanic eruptions, and human-induced alterations of the natural world.,

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