The Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was issued in 2001. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988 by two United Nations organizations, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to assess the risk of human-induced climate change. The Panel is open to all members of the WMO and UNEP. Its...
It consists of the reports of three working groups and a synthesis:
WGI: The Scientific Basis
WGII: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
WGIII: Mitigation
Synthesis Report
The WGI covers the same areas as for the SAR but WG's II & III cover slightly different areas. The Second Assessment Report (SAR) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was published in 1995. ...
Global mean surface temperatures 1856-2004 Global warming is a term used to describe an increase over time of the average temperature of Earths atmosphere and oceans. ... Attribution of recent climate change attempts to discover what mechanisms are responsible for the observed changes in climate. ...
IPCCreports should be neutral with respect to policy, although they may need to deal objectively with scientific, technical and socio-economic factors relevant to the application of particular policies.
The IPCC is currently (May 2005) in the process of preparing the fourth assessmentreport or AR4 [13]; reports of the workshops held so far are available [14].
Authors for the IPCCreports are chosen from a list of researchers prepared by governments, and participating organisations and the Working Group/Task Force Bureaux, and other experts as appropriate, known through their publications and works ([23], 4.2.1,2).
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