News & Views item - September 2013

 

 

Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report: Summary for Policymakers. (September 29, 2013)

The Working Group I contribution to the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) considers new evidence of climate change based on many independent scientific analyses from observations of the climate system, paleoclimate archives, theoretical studies of climate processes and simulations using climate models.

 

The 36-page "Summary for Policymaker" (SPM) is available here.

The figure below depicts the annual average and decadal average temperature anomaly.

It is followed by the extra short 19 point summary of the summary for policy makers.

 

And finally, a graphic summary of the views expressed by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

 

 

 

 

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Credit: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists