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Science Panel Says Global Warming Is ‘Unequivocal’
Source: Copyright 2007, New York Times
Date: February 3, 2007
Byline: Elisabeth Rosenthal and Andrew C. Revkin
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In a grim and powerful assessment of the future of the planet, the leading
international network of climate scientists has concluded for the first time
that global warming is “unequivocal” and that human activity is the main driver,
“very likely” causing most of the rise in temperatures since 1950.
They said the world was in for centuries of climbing temperatures, rising seas
and shifting weather patterns — unavoidable results of the buildup of
heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.
But their report, released here on Friday by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, said warming and its harmful consequences could be substantially
blunted by prompt action.
While the report provided scant new evidence of a climate apocalypse now, and
while it expressly avoided recommending courses of action, officials from the
United Nations agencies that created the panel in 1988 said it spoke of the
urgent need to limit looming and momentous risks.
“In our daily lives we all respond urgently to dangers that are much less likely
than climate change to affect the future of our children,” said Achim Steiner,
executive director of the United Nations ...
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