Panel Warns Bush on Climate Change Katharine Q. Seelye and Andrew C. Revkin New York Times Service Friday, June 8, 2001
WASHINGTON A panel of top American scientists has declared that global warming is a real problem and is getting worse, a conclusion that may lead President George W. Bush to change his stand on the issue as he heads next week to Europe, where the United States is seen as a major source of the air pollution linked to climate change.
In a much-anticipated report from the National Academy of Sciences, 11 leading atmospheric scientists and oceanographers, including previous skeptics about global warming, reaffirmed the mainstream scientific view that the atmosphere is getting warmer and that human activity is largely responsible.
"Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise," the report said. "Temperatures are, in fact, rising."
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