Climate change: Scientific assessment of climate change. IPCC first assessment report, WG I

This is the Final Report of Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is sponsored jointly by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme. The report considers the scientific assessment of climate change. Several hundred working scientists from 25 countries have participated in the preparation and review of the scientific data. The result is the most authoritative and strongly supported statement on climate change that has ever been made by the international scientific community. The issues confronted with full rigour include global warming, greenhouse gases, the greenhouse effect, sea-level changes, forcing of climate, and the history of Earth's changing climate. The information presented here is of the highest quality. It will inform the necessary scientific, political and economic debates and negotiations that can be expected in the immediate future. Appropriate strategies in response to the issue of climate change can now be firmly based on the scientific foundation that the Report provides. The Report is, therefore, an essential reference for all who are concerned with climate change and its consequences.