IT TOOK three years to write and contains six years’ worth of research. The full report, to be published later this year, will contain 11 chapters. One chapter alone, seen by New Scientist, runs to 150 pages and includes more than 850 references. The authors say it will resolve many critical questions about climate change and support the unequivocal language of the summary published last week.
Warming is now an “incontrovertible” fact for two reasons, the scientists say. First, because doubts raised by satellite data – which suggested that recent warming has been far less than surface thermometers indicate – have now been resolved. In short,…
