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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (743262)10/2/2013 10:00:39 PM
From: J_F_Shepard  Read Replies (1) of 1578145
 
The science was settled – before it even started.
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95% certainty humans causing global warming, per new UN climate report
10/1/2013 7:00am by Gaius Publius 33 Comments
According to the just-issued United Nations climate change report, the odds that humans are causing global warming has increased to a 95% certainty. Yes, they’ve looked hard at the evidence, and yes, we’re the perp.

In effect, we’re de-terraforming the planet — making it less and less hospitable as a place for our species to live.

I’ve been writing about climate lately for a reason (well, several). One is that we’re on the verge of seeing full new report from the IPCC (the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).

The report is in four volumes, three covering some aspect of climate change, and one a synthesys of the others. Volume I, from the IPCC Working Group 1, deals with the physical basis — the evidence that climate is changing and predictions about how much it will continue to change under a number of scenarios.

The full Volume I report is out; the rest are due in 2014. To read just the Summary for Policymakers, click here (pdf). My discussion of IPCC climate scenarios from previous reports is here.

The bottom line from the Volume I Summary: It has been determined that humans are now 95% (“very likely”) certain to be causing global warming, up from just “likely” as stated in the previous report (AR4
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