Climate Change and Variability

i"It is not a question of whether the Earth's climate will change, but rather when, where and by how much. It is undisputed that the last decade has been the warmest this century, indeed the warmest for hundreds of years, and many parts of the world have suffered major heat-waves, floods, droughts and extreme weather events leading to significant economic losses and loss of life. While individual events cannot be linked to human-induced climate change, the frequency and magnitude of these types of events are expected to increase in a warmer world."

---Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Report to the Fifth Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,
November, 1999

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