Is There Scientific Consensus on Human-Induced Global Warming?

[Monique]

There is controversy about how certain the scientific community is of its conclusions about global warming: whether humans are influencing the climate and whether global temperatures will continue to rise rapidly in this century.

There are two reviews that can be used as a reference for information.

• First, the IPCC Third Assessment Report of Climate Change that can be found on the following website: http://www.ipcc.ch/
• Second, a review article named "Global Warming: The Balance of Evidence and Its Policy Implications" that can be found here http://www.thescientificworld.co.uk/headeradmin/upload/2003.03.26.pdf

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[Monique]

Contributed by Sylas:

Since these two reviews were published, both have now been given in updated forms. The differences give a useful insight into how climate science is progressing, and the new versions are more up to date.

• The Physical Science Basis reviews the underlying science of the fourth IPCC assessment report, which is now available at the ipcc site. It is very long, but there is a technical summary and an FAQ which can help as a guide.
• The second reference above provides a "Review of the Current State-of-the-Controversy". In the light of significant progress on the major issues of controversy identified in that 2003 review, the author published an update in 2007. It is:
  Keller (2007) http://www.thescientificworld.com/headeradmin/upload/2007.03.91.pdf
  TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 7, 381–399. DOI 10.1100/tsw.2007.91