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Notes Royal Society of the United Kingdom

The Royal Society of the United Kingdom has not changed its concurring stance. According to the
Telegraph, a leading British newspaper ” The most prestigious group of scientists in the country was
forced to act after forty-three fellows complained that ‘uncertainty in the debate’ over man made
global warming were not being communicated to the public.” In May 2010, it announced that it “is
presently drafting a new public facing document on climate change, to provide an updated status
report on the science in an easily accessible form, also addressing the levels of certainty of key
components.”
The society says that it is three years since the last such document was published and that, after an
extensive process of debate and review, the new document was printed in September 2010. It
summarises the current scientific evidence and highlights the areas where the science is well
established, where there is still some debate, and where substantial uncertainties remain. The society
has stated that “this is not the same as saying that the climate science itself is in error—no Fellows
have expressed such a view to the RS”. The introduction includes this statement:
There is strong evidence that the warming of the Earth over the last half-century has been caused
largely by human activity, such as the burning of fossil fuels and changes in land use, including
agriculture and deforestation.

Polish Academy of Sciences
In December 2007, the General Assembly of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) issued a statement
endorsing the IPCC conclusions, and states: it is the duty of Polish science and the national government
to, in a thoughtful, organized and active manner, become involved in realisation of these ideas.
Problems of global warming, climate change, and their various negative impacts on human life and
on the functioning of entire societies are one of the most dramatic challenges of modern times.
PAS General Assembly calls on the national scientific communities and the national government to
actively support Polish participation in this important endeavour.
National Research Council (US)
In 2001, the Committee on the Science of Climate Change of the National Research Council published
Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions. This report explicitly endorses the
IPCC view of attribution of recent climate change as representing the view of the scientific
community:
The changes observed over the last several decades are likely mostly due to human activities, but
we cannot rule out that some significant part of these changes is also a reflection of natural variability.
Human-induced warming and associated sea level rises are expected to continue through the 21st
century... The IPCC’s conclusion that most of the observed warming of the last 50 years is likely to
have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations accurately reflects the current thinking
of the scientific community on this issue.
American Association for the Advancement of Science

As the world’s largest general scientific society, the American Association for the Advancement of
Science adopted an official statement on climate change in 2006:
The scientific evidence is clear: global climate change caused by human activities is occurring now,
and it is a growing threat to society....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.

The American Chemical Society stated
Careful and comprehensive scientific assessments have clearly demonstrated that the Earth’s climate
system is changing rapidly in response to growing atmospheric burdens of greenhouse gases and

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