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Rajendra Pachauri of IPCC says climate change is real and caused by humans

Rajendra Pachauri – who heads the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC(政府间气候变化专门委员会)–says global warming is real, and that the recent warming has been caused mainly by human activity. But, Pachauri added:

Rajendra Pachauri: I think we certainly need much more [---1---] through research in several parts of the world on the impacts of climate change.

Pachauri spoke with EarthSky’s Jorge Salazar at the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December of 2009. He said that, since 1990, IPCC experts have documented over 25,000 examples of observed changes to Earth’s climate. These include [---2---]. To his critics, he says.

Rajendra Pachauri: [---3---]. And there’s been no exclusion of anything at all. And I think the IPCC authors have been completely open and objective.

Still, he hopes that, in the future, his organization will be able to make even more specific projections about climate change in this century.

Rajendra Pachauri: I think those need to be [---4---]and we need to project those impacts in a way that we get much more reliable information on what’s going to happen in several parts of the world. [---5---].

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