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== Statements on global warming ==

Some scientific organisations and distinguished climate scientists who have made position statements on climate change.

* [[IPCC|Intergovernmental panel on climate change]]

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The Summary Report of the World Climate Change Conference, Moscow, 2003, included: "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has provided the basis for much of our present understanding of knowledge in this field in its Third Assessment Report (TAR) in 2001. An overwhelming majority of the scientific community has accepted its general conclusions that climate change is occurring, is primarily a result of human emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols, and that this represents a threat to people and ecosystems." [http://www.wccc2003.org/press/summ_e.htm]

*[http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20050623/40748412.html] Statement by Yury Izrael, Director of the Russian Global Climate and Ecology Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, and IPCC Vice President on human CO2 induced climate change

==Surveys==