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Article: Consensus reached on climate change causes. (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report concludes greenhouse gas pollutants are the most important factors causing global warming) (Brief Article)
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- September 24, 1994
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While the politics of global warming inspire division and argument among nations, the world's scientists have reached a consensus on what causes climate change. Hundreds of top researchers from more than 80 countries agreed last week that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas pollutants represent the most important forces currently altering the climate, drowning out other effects that can cool the globe.
To produce the authoritative document, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) enlisted more than 140 scientists to write the report and then sent the work to 230 reviewers. "We involved virtually all the scientists in the world who have done ...