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The Most Alarming Findings From A Monster Report On Climate Change
Dina Spector Sep. 27, 2013, 2:10 PM 1,274 23

On Friday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a summary of the biggest report on climate change since 2007. The final draft will be unveiled Monday.

The world's top climate scientists are more certain than ever that climate change is real and humans are causing it.

"Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia," the report said. "The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, sea level has risen, and the concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased."

The new report says with at least 95% confidence that human-emitted greenhouse gases are responsible for most of the Earth's warming since 1951. Scientists were only 90% confident in 2007, and the human contribution to global warming wasn't even mentioned in the first report, published in 1990.

Here are some of the key findings:

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