The American Association for the Advancement of Science is meeting this week in San Francisco. AAAS is the largest professional organization of scientists in the world. It's Board just released a statement on climate change:
The scientific evidence is clear: global climate change caused by human activities is occurring now, and it is a growing threat to society. Accumulating data from across the globe reveal a wide array of effects: rapidly melting glaciers, destabilization of major ice sheets, increases in extreme weather, rising sea level, shifts in species ranges, and more. The pace of change and the evidence of harm have increased markedly over the last five years. The time to control greenhouse gas emissions is now.
Read the full statment at the AAAS website.
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