The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its Fifth Assessment Report on climate change. It claims that, "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia."
Perhaps equally as alarming is the fact that scientists are now 95% certain that humans have been the main cause of the rise in temperatures since the 1950s, and the IPCC has warned that continued emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and changes in the climate system.
However, the IPCC has also dismissed a pause in warming observed over the past 15 years, as it is too short to reflect on long-term trends.
The report is founded on physical evidence. Qin Dahe, co-chair of the IPCC Working Group I who produced the report, said, "Our assessment of the science finds that the atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amount of snow and ice has diminished, the global mean sea level has risen and that concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased."
The solution, it would seem, would be to continue to work on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
For more information, see the:
