{"id":264,"date":"2009-12-13T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/12\/13\/statement-from-the-uk-science-community-on-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:36:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:36:34","slug":"statement-from-the-uk-science-community-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/12\/13\/statement-from-the-uk-science-community-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from the UK Science Community on climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of the UEA email hack, the UK science community have issued a statement regarding climate change.  This is hosted by the UK Met Office web site:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/climatechange\/news\/latest\/uk-science-statement.html\"><br \/>http:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/climatechange\/news\/latest\/uk-science-statement.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The statement, upon which I am proud to be listed, says:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We, members of the UK science community, have the utmost confidence in the observational evidence for global warming and the scientific basis for concluding that it is due primarily to human activities. The evidence and the science are deep and extensive. They come from decades of painstaking and meticulous research, by many thousands of scientists across the world who adhere to the highest levels of professional integrity. That research has been subject to peer review and publication, providing traceability of the evidence and support for the scientific method.                           <\/p>\n<p>The science of climate change draws on fundamental                            research from an increasing number of disciplines,                            many of which are represented here. As professional                            scientists, from students to senior professors, we                            uphold the findings of the IPCC Fourth Assessment                            Report, which concludes that \u2018Warming of the                            climate system is unequivocal\u2019 and that &#8216;Most                            of the observed increase in global average temperatures                            since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the                            observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas                            concentrations&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This statement has been signed by &gt;1700 scientists from the UK.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of the UEA email hack, the UK science community have issued a statement regarding climate change. This is hosted by the UK Met Office web site:http:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/climatechange\/news\/latest\/uk-science-statement.html The statement, upon which I am proud to be listed, says: &#8220;We, members of the UK science community, have the utmost confidence in the observational evidence for global warming and the scientific basis for concluding that it is due primarily to &hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[196],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}