Scientists insist global warming is real

Latest findings continue to support the statement that "warming in the climate system is unequivocal", the key conclusion they made in the 2007 Climate Change Report, Thomas Stocker, a climate environmental physicist, said during a panel discussion on the sideline of the ongoing United Nations Climate Change Conference Tuesday.
Stocker, lead author of the previous two IPCC reports, is leading the working group 1 on the new Climate Change report to be released in 2013.
By using latest climate change models and studying chemical composition of rain and greenhouse gas, Stocker and his colleagues at the IPCC have discovered that the atmosphere now contains higher levels of CO2 than described in the 2007 report and its increase is more rapid than previously calculated.
Ice is thinning on the margins of Greenland and Antarctica, he revealed. There are areas where the ice is becoming thicker, but these zones are few and far between. Meanwhile, the sea ice over the Arctic is losing rapidly.
Stocker warned that there is the possibility that the sea-level may continue to rise even when the humans achieve zero carbon emissions.
Extreme weathers have become more frequent, he said. Such as heat waves, which now occur once every four years, whereas it happened once in 1,000 years after they studied data from centuries back; Kazinform cites China Daily.
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