Explaining climate change

Scientists have reached a watershed in their understanding of climate change. The publication of the Secind Assessment Report (SAR) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) represents a historic milestone in the study of the greenhouse effect : for the first time scientific consensus has been reached that there us a discemible human influence on climate. Not only has it been possible to detect a human cause in the changes that are being observed currently, but the IPCC states that: The projections covered in this report indicate clearly that future climate change will be dominated by human influences unless and until the compostion of the atmosphere is stabilised a clear indication that humans particularly those living in industrialised countries need to adjust the ways they conduct activities such as travelling producing and transporting goods and heating buildings.