Understanding Climate Change – Nobel Peace Prize puts spotlight on climate protection

This summary, freely available at http://www.greenfacts.org/, offers a convenient tool for revisiting the IPCC’s core findings about man-made climate change and ways to counteract it. It shows that connections between human activities and global warming are becoming even clearer and the consequences still more apparent.

GreenFacts, an independent non-profit organization based in Brussels, provides the general public with plain-language versions of scientific consensus reports issued by international bodies. GreenFacts’ summary of the IPCC’s important conclusions on climate change have been reviewed by five independent scientists – who contributed to the IPCC assessment – in an effort to remain clear, accurate and unbiased.

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GreenFacts is a unique and powerful resource at a time when science is critical to our understanding of issues of health and the environment.

About GreenFacts

GreenFacts was created in 2001 by individuals from scientific institutions, environment and health organisations, and businesses, who called for wider access to unbiased information on environment and health topics.

As an observer organization of the IPCC, GreenFacts closely follows the adoption of the scientific reports that constitute the backbone of the IPCC 4th assessment report: “The Physical Science Basis”