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UN urges global response to scientific evidence that climate change is human-induced

IPCC Report Launched United Nations officials have called for a global response to combat climate change, following new findings by a scientific panel stating it is "extremely likely" that humans have been the dominant cause of unprecedented global warming since 1950. "The heat is on. Now we must act,"Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a videomessageto the launch of the report of the UN-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC report, released on September 27, 2013 in Stockholm, Sweden, calls global warming "unequivocal," and confirms that there is a 95 per cent probability that most of the warming since 1950 has been caused by human influence. The reportstresses that evidence for this has grown "thanks to more and better observations, an improved understanding of the climate system response and improved climate models." "The IPCC report demonstrates that we must greatly reduce global emissions in order to avoid the worst effects of climate change," said the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Michel Jarraud. "It also contains important new scientific knowledge that can be used to produce actionable climate information and services for assisting society to adapt to the impacts of climate change." In itsreport, the IPCC notes that ...

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