Publisher's Synopsis
The scientific method is regarded as the foundation of modern science. It ensures that scientific experimentation is neither arbitrary nor subjective, and that results can be replicated. Scientific evidence of human-induced climate change rapidly increased through the 1970s. By 1982, even oil giant Exxon's own scientists were reporting to management that climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions was likely to occur, and that the effects of this climate change could be catastrophic. Since the early 1980s when Exxon internally acknowledged the reality of climate change, the scientific evidence confirming human caused climate change has piled up at an incredible rate. The current scientific consensus on human caused climate change is based on thousands of scientific studies conducted by thousands of scientists all across the globe. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, which is composed of scientists from around the world, has concluded that warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and that it is extremely likely that human influence was the dominant cause of global warming. The IPCC is not alone. The National Academies of Sciences has reached the same conclusion. The national academies of sciences in virtually every major country on Earth has endorsed the IPCC's central conclusions on climate change. Most relevant scientific societies, including AAAS, the American Physical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society, and a host of others have also affirmed the overwhelming scientific evidence for human-caused climate change.
