This report is the first complete assessment of the science of climate change since Working
Group I (WGI) of the IPCC produced its second report Climate Change 1995: The Science of …

Planning and decision-making can be improved by access to reliable forecasts of ecosystem
state, ecosystem services, and natural capital. Availability of new data sets, together with …

The results presented in this chapter are based on simulations made with global climate
models and apply to spacial scales of hundreds of kilometres and larger. Chapter 10 …

This chapter assesses the current state of knowledge of the rate of change of global-
averaged and regional sea-level in relation to climate change. We focus on the 20th and …

Two important new findings since the IPCC WGI Second Assessment Report (IPCC,
1996)(hereafter SAR) demonstrate the importance of atmospheric chemistry in controlling …

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recently released its Third
Assessment Report (TAR), in which new projections are given for global-mean warming in …

In this volume, the Institute's research team takes a fresh look at the most difficult challenge
the world faces: how to build an environmentally sustainable economy before we do …

We simulate the major anthropogenic aerosols, sulfate, organic carbon and black carbon, in
the Goddard Institute for Space Studies General Circulation Model (GISS GCM), and …

Future emissions of greenhouse gases, their climatic effects, and the resulting
environmental and economic consequences are subject to large uncertainties. The task …

Global warming simulations are performed with a coupled climate model of reduced
complexity to investigate global warming—marine carbon cycle feedbacks. The model is …