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1700 UK researchers sign statement standing behind global warming science Jeremy Hance mongabay.com December 10, 2009 The Met Office statement proclaims that the "evidence and the science are deep and extensive" for climate change, involving "decades of painstaking and meticulous research, by many thousands of scientists across the world who adhere to the highest levels of professional integrity". The statement also agrees with a conclusion by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC) that human activities are "very likely" the cause of rising temperatures. The IPCC has stated that there is a 90 percent certainty that humans are behind climate change. One signatory to the statement told The Times that he felt pressured to sign the document. However, Julia Slingo, chief scientist at the Met Office responded: "as a scientist you sign things you agree with, not because you are worried about what the Met Office might think of you." Last Friday, in light of the stolen emails, the IPCC also released a statement that said it stood behind its decades-long work on climate change science. "The warming in the climate system is unequivocal. It is based on measurements made by many independent institutions worldwide that demonstrate significant changes on land, in the atmosphere, the ocean and in the ice-covered areas of the Earth," the statement said. Earlier this year a poll showed that 97 percent of climatologists agree that not only is climate change occurring, but humans play a role. Related articles Email scandal may be turning against climate change deniers (12/07/2009) It may be that climate change scientists and policymakers have simply had enough, and it may be that the emails which were hacked did not reveal the massive conspiracy that they were supposed to, either way climatologists and politicians have gone on the offensive against claims that the hacked emails from the East Anglia's Climate Research Unit are evidence that climate change is a conspiracy or hoax. Mass media ‘screwing up’ global warming reporting says renowned climatologist (02/15/2009) Stanford scientist and climate-specialist Stephen Schneider has called out media organizations for the quality of their reporting on climate change and other scientific issues. "Business managers of media organizations,” he said, “you are screwing up your responsibility by firing science and environment reporters who are frankly the only ones competent to do this." 97% of climatologists say global warming is occurring and caused by humans (01/22/2009) A new poll among 3,146 earth scientists found that 90 percent believe global warming is real, while 82 percent agree that human activity been a significant factor in changing mean global temperatures.
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