Climate Change

Climate Change The Latest Confirmation: IPCC AR5 Proves Human Responsibility for Climate Change Phenomenon Released late September 2013, the first part of the IPCC’s (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) which deals with the physical science basis of the climate change debate re- established the legitimacy of the concern of the pressing environmental issue. [...] (Source: IPCC) Released late September 2013, the first part of the IPCC’s (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), which deals with the physical science basis of the climate change debate, re- established the legitimacy of the concern of the pressing environmental issue. [...] The IPCC AR5 confirms and emphasizes that the the global warming phenomenon is, in fact, real and expresses 95% confidence that people and their activities throughout the ages are the dominant cause behind it. [...] The studies on which the AR5 is based reveal evidence that ocean temperatures are increasing (the IPCC is “virtually certain” that the upper 700m of the earth’s oceans have warmed over the past forty or so years), leading to the melting of snow and ice cover depletion at the planet’s polar regions, as well as the resulting rise in sea levels. [...] Meanwhile, addressing the warming phenomenon that is said to have happened in 950-1250 AD, IPCC iterated that, while comparable to the warming observed in the late 20th century, the former was more heterogeneous in scope, unlike the current warming event which is taking place across the planet, as proven by scientific data.