美國，04-18-2000 - 是的，根據一份大家期盼已久，由聯合國政府間氣候變遷專家小組(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC)所出版的報告初稿顯示，全球溫暖化現象正在惡化當中，而且人們似乎對此有所抱怨。IPCC是由聯合國及世界氣象組織(World Meteorological Organization)所發起，網羅各國頂尖科學家的一個國際性組織；這個由IPCC所提出的初步分析基本上與他們上次在1995年所做的一項大型研究報告結論相符，亦即「綜合證據顯示，人類對於全球氣候有顯著的影響」。這份研究報告的初稿也同時預測在本世紀結束時地球表面溫度將可能會上升華氏2到9度，而且目前所觀察到的溫暖化現象為「異常而非只是單純的自然現象」。

資料來源 華盛頓郵報(Washington Post) 科特蘇普利(Curt Suplee)04.18.00
原文請見
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31237-2000Apr17.html

從Grist雜誌中溫習有關氣候變遷的真相
http://www.gristmagazine.com/grist/heatbeat/inshorta.stm

版權歸屬 Earth Day Network，環境信託協會 (陳均輝 譯，朱敬平審校)

中英對照譯稿請見http://news.ngo.org.tw/2000/04/0420/ed00042001.htm

up, global warming is happening and humans seem to be to blame, according to an early draft of a long-awaited report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This new preliminary analysis by the IPCC, an international collaboration of top scientists sponsored by the U.N. and the World Meteorological Organization, comes to the same basic conclusions as the IPCC's last major report in 1995, which found that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." The new draft report predicts that the Earth's surface will likely warm between 2 and 9 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century, and that the warming we've already seen is "exceptional and unlikely to be solely natural in origin."

straight to the source: Washington Post, Curt Suplee, 04.18.00
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31237-2000Apr17.html

brush up on your climate change facts in Grist: Heat Beat
http://www.gristmagazine.com/grist/heatbeat/inshorta.stm