Changes to the climate are “undeniable” and show clear signs of “human fingerprints”, researchers have said in the first big piece of research since the “Climategate” controversy.
Peter Stott, head of climate monitoring at the UK's Met Office, said the research painted a clear picture of all of the earth's important climate systems: “The fingerprints are clear ... The glaringly obvious explanation for this is warming from greenhouse gases.”
The research, headed by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is the first to gather the relevant data in this way and takes scientists much further than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report of more than three years ago, by adding data not available then.