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IPCC climate change report: Human role in global warming now even clearer - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) »
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there is now a 95 per cent probability that humans are responsible for global warming. The figure, in the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report, which was released in Stockholm on Friday, is a 5 per cent increase from the panel's 2007 landmark report. That report was criticised for a handful of well-publicised mistakes, particularly the claim that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035. However, IPCC chairperson Rajendra Pachauri says the group has learnt from that experience and this time around we're being very, very careful. The report says the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has risen by 40 per cent since the pre-industrial era and presents a number of different scenarios of how climate change may unfold over the next century. Source Main page (current trends)
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