IPCC and AGW

[Young Master Smeet]

http://theconversation.com/how-does-the-ipcc-know-climate-change-is-happening-33704

At the risk of re-opening the old debate, the above is why it is so important. 

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its synthesis report on November 2, a document that brings together the findings from the IPCC’s three main working groups. It reiterates that the evidence for climate change is unequivocal, with evidence for a significant rise in global temperatures and sea level over the last hundred years. It also stresses that we control the future and the magnitude of shifting weather patterns and more extreme climate events depends on how much greenhouse gas we emit.

This is the key

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The continued burning of fossil fuels will inevitably lead to further climate warming. The complexity of the climate system is such that the extent of such warming is difficult to predict, particularly as the largest unknown is how much greenhouse gas we will emit over the next 85 years.

. No one can seriouly doubt that the Green house effect exists, the only debate now is how to mitigate and halt it's effects.  The reality is that this cannot be left to markets: we will see an increasing trend towards tyate capitalism as a means of controlling envrionhemntal effects (including attempts to create designed markets).

The IPCC report comes from an immense collaboration between sacientific practitioners, in the face of immense scrutiny and free public debate.  It represents the best description of climate change that we can manage, and it's up to rational actors to tak it on board and use it.

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