What evidence is there that climate change is happening?
Most climate scientists agree that the world is going to get warmer. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was set up by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme in 1988 to assess scientific and socio-economic information on climate change and its impacts and to the advise the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. In its Fourth Assessment Report (involving over 2,500 scientific expert reviewers, 800 authors with 450 lead authors from over 130 countries) it projects that global temperatures could rise by between 1.1 and 6.4°C by the end of this century. The range of temperatures reflects a number of uncertainties, as many aspects of the weather are not fully understood, such as the impact of clouds, which can have both warming and cooling effects. Also unclear is the role of ocean currents, and role of the carbon cycle in oceans and forests. Central England has one of the longest temperature records dating back to
Climate change is human-induced, observed and projected long-term changes in climate averages, as well as climate variability, including anomalies such as droughts, severe storms and floods.
Now it is sea level and temperature records, anomalies in regions where this has not happened before. That is why more and more often companies and people are thinking about climate change investment and similar projects.
Most climate scientists agree that the world is going to get warmer. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was set up by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme in 1988 to assess scientific and socio-economic information on climate change and its impacts and to advise the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
