Back in 2001 a joint statement on anthropogenic global warming was issued by the Australian Academy of Sciences, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Royal Society of Canada, Caribbean Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina, Indian National Science Academy, Indonesian Academy of Sciences, Royal Irish Academy, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Italy), Academy of Sciences Malaysia, Academy Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Turkish Academy of Sciences, and Royal Society (UK).
Their statement acknowledged several points including these two:
• It is now evident that human activities are already contributing adversely to global climate change. Business as usual is no longer a viable option.
• There will always be some uncertainty surrounding the prediction of changes in such a complex system as the world's climate. Nevertheless, we support the IPCC's conclusion that it is at least 90% certain that temperatures will continue to rise, with average global surface temperature projected to increase by between 1.4° and 5.8°C above 1990 levels by 2100.
In 2005 the National Academies of Science from Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, United Kingdom and the United States issued their own Joint statement on a Global Response to Climate Change and stated the following:
• (T)here is now strong evidence that significant global warming is occurring.
• It is likely that most of the warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities (IPCC 2001).
• This warming has already led to changes in the Earth's climate.
• (H)uman activities are now causing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases...to rise well above pre-industrial levels.
• Carbon dioxide levels have increased from 280 ppm in 1750 to over 375 ppm today - higher than any previous levels that can be reliably measured (i.e. in the last 420,000 years).
• Increasing greenhouse gases are causing temperatures to rise; the Earth's surface warmed by approximately 0.6 centigrade degrees over the twentieth century.
Ten years earlier, the first Conference of the Parties (COP) was held in 1995 in Berlin. Since that first COP, there have been 16 more. The next COP will be #18 in Qatar. Every single year the COP meets at least once and focuses on this issue of greenhouse gases and how we are heating up the planet. Deny all you want, lie all you want but those are the facts. A logical person would assume that if scientists were still debating whether humans were responsible for climate change, at least one government or National Academy of Science would get that memo.
The fact is these national governments turn to their National Academies of Science when they need scientific information. Where do the deniers go? It has been 32 months. They still refuse to say.
The second COP took place in 1996 in Geneva, Switzerland and issued a Ministerial Declaration reflecting a U.S. position statement which, "Accepted the scientific findings on climate change proffered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its second assessment (1995)" and "Called for 'legally binding mid-term targets'". That was 17 years ago.
In other words, the world's climate scientists and the world's governments officially ceased arguing with one another about the cause of anthropogenic global warming. The scientific debate regarding the cause of climate change officially ended back in the mid 90s. This is a fact. Look it up. Please look it up.
The political debate among conservatives was just underway at the time and is still going strong, despite the fact that representatives from every single nation on the planet have fully accepted without reservation the fact that humans are causing the globe to grow warmer from the burning of fossil fuels.
This was true of COP 2 and it has been true of every COP since. No scientific evidence has been produced in the last 30 years to dispute this, despite the loud, shrill claims of the deniers who stand outside the halls of science and publish every place except within the pages of peer-reviewed science journals.
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