Science Community Stands Behind Evidence for Climate Change, Top Scientists Say at AAAS
AAAS 2010 Annual Meeting News
A panel of influential U.S. and European scientists yesterday affirmed the overwhelming scientific consensus that the Earth’s climate is changing, but said they and their colleauges should have responded more quickly and effectively to news about errors in a major climate report and hacked researcher e-mails.
In a discussion at the AAAS Annual meeting, the prominent scientific leaders acknowledged errors in a 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and possibly impolitic email exchanges by East Anglian University climate researchers. But they expressed shock at the political effects of the disclosures and characterized the impact as far out of proportion to the overwhelming evidence that human activity is changing the Earth’s climate.
“There has been no change in the scientific community, no change whatsoever,” in the consensus that global average temperatures have been steadily climbing since the mid-20th century, “said Jerry North, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University.
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