Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis (Technical Summary with link to full report)
Publication Date: 2013
This report confirms that warming in the climate system is unequivocal, with many of the observed changes unprecedented over decades to millennia: warming of the atmosphere and the ocean, diminishing snow and ice, rising sea levels and increasing concentrations of greenhouse gasses. Each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the Earth's surface than any preceeding decade since 1850.
The report consists of a short Summary for Policymakers, a longer Technical Summary and fourteen thematic chapters plus annexes.The Working Group I Report is an assessment, not a review or a text book of climate science, and is based on the published scientific and technical literature available up to 15 March 2013. Underlying all aspects of the report is a strong commitment to assessing the science comprehensively, without bias and in a way that is relevant to policy but not policy prescriptive.
Download separate chapters directly from the IPCC's website or follow this link to the full report.
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