Reuters:
A U.N. panel on climate change is set to give its strongest warning yet that human use of fossil fuels is stoking global warming, informed sources said on Friday.
A draft of the report by 2,500 scientists says it is "very likely" that human activities were the main cause of warming in the past 50 years, strengthening a conclusion in their last study in 2001 that it was "likely," they said.
But the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will also project less extreme bands than it did in 2001 for temperature and sea level rises in the 21st century. That means toning down both the most catastrophic and least damaging scenarios.
The report is due to be unveiled on February 2 in Paris, after final review and approval by governments.
In case you're a climate change denier and want to point to the fact that 'very likely' means they aren't 100% sure, 'very likely' is defined by the report as "a 90-99 percent probability."
In other words, pretty damned sure.
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