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Man-made climate change. Now what will the sceptics and naysayers say?

The much anticipated IPCC Report has just been released - and there is no doubting that climate change is happening and that mankind can, if the will is there (hello ignorant people like Australian PM Tony Abbott - he who has declared climate change "absolute crap") countries can still do something and retrieve the situation we all finds ourselves in.

"Scientists say it's clear human activities are to blame for the earth's warming in the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

  • Average surface temperatures up 0.85 degrees since 1880
  • Extremely likely – 95 per cent certainty – humans the dominant cause global of warming
  • Sea levels to rise between 26 and 81 centimetres by 2100
  • World on track for more than 2 degrees – and possibly more than 4 degrees – warming by 2100
It is more certain than ever that human civilisation is the main cause of global warming, putting the world on track for dangerous temperature rises, the latest major UN assessment of climate change science has found.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says it is “extremely likely” that humans are the dominant cause of observed warming since the mid-20th century, with carbon dioxide emissions the main factor.

If emissions remain high, by 2100 temperatures are likely to rise by more than 2 degrees - and up to 4.8 degrees - breaching a threshold agreed by governments as limiting the worst impacts of climate change.

Heatwaves will be more frequent and last longer, the report found. Most wet regions will get more rainfall, and most dry regions less.

Glaciers and ice sheets will continue to shrink, and the sea level will rise more quickly."


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