Climate change is defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as ‘any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity’. There is now widespread scientific agreement that human activity has been primarily responsible for recent climate change. This entry briefly summarizes the empirical background to this ...

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