Climate change 2001 the scientific basis : summary for policymakers and technical summary of the Working Group I report. ([Cambridge, U.K. Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Introduction -- The IPCC and its working groups -- The first and second assessment reports of working group I -- The third assessment report: This technical summary -- B. The observed changes in the climate system -- Observed changes in temperature -- Observed changes in precipitation and atmosphere moisture -- Observed changes in snow cover and land and sea-ice extent -- Observed changes in sea level -- Observed changes in atmospheric and oceanic circulation patterns -- Observed changes in climate variability and extreme weather and climate events -- The collective picture : a warning world and other changes in the climate system -- C. The forcing agents that cause climate change -- Observed changes in globally well-mixed greenhouse gas concentrations and radiative forcing -- Observed changes in other radiatively important gases -- Observed and modelled changes in aerosols -- Observed changes in other anthropogenic forcing agents -- Observed and modelled changes in solar and volcanic activity -- Global warning potentials -- D. The simulation of the climate system and its changes -- Climate processes and feedbacks -- The coupled systems -- Regionalisation techniques -- Overall assessment of abilities -- E. The identification of a human influence on climate change -- The meaning of detection and attribution -- A longer and more closely scrutinised observational record -- New model estimates of responses to natural forcing -- Sensitivity to estimates of climate change signals -- A wider range of detection techniques -- Remaining uncertainties in detection and attribution -- Synopsis -- F. The projections of the earth's future climate -- The IPCC Special Report on Emmissions Scenarios (SRES) -- Projections of future changes in greenhouse gases and aerosols -- Projections of future changes in Temperature -- Projections of future changes in Precipitation -- Projections of future changes in extreme events -- Projections of future changes in thermohaline circulation -- Projections of future changes in modes of natural variability -- Projections of future changes in land ice , (glaciers, ice caps, and ice sheets), sea ice, snow cover, Projections of future changes in sea level, Projections of future changes in response to CO2 concentration stabilisation profiles -- G. Advancing understanding -- Data -- Climate processes and modelling -- Human aspects -- International framework.
Part of the Working Group I contribution to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change.
"Published for thew Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."
Photocopy.
Keywords: Climate changes; Green house gases -- Environmental aspects; Climate change mitigation -- Government policy