Report to Offer Climate Change Evidence (IPCC)

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/tech/2006/nov/13/111306047.html

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A long-awaited report by an international scientific network will offer much stronger evidence of how man is changing Earth's climate, and should prompt balky governments into action against global warming, the group's chief scientist said Monday.

The upcoming, multi-volume U.N. assessment - on melting ice caps and rising seas, with authoritative new data on how the world has warmed - "might provide just the right impetus to get the negotiations going in a more purposeful way," Rajendra K. Pachauri said in an interview midway through the annual two-week U.N. climate conference.

The Indian climatologist is chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a global network of some 2,000 climate and other scientists that regularly assesses the state of research into how carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases produced by industry and other human activities are affecting the climate.

In its pivotal Third Assessment, in 2001, the panel concluded that most global warming - temperatures rose an average 0.6 degrees Celsius (1 degree Fahrenheit) in the past century - was likely the result of such manmade greenhouse gases.

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