PARIS, Feb. 1 2007
Officials from 113 countries agreed Thursday that a much-awaited international report will say that global warming was “very likely” caused by human activity.
That means they agree that there is a 90 percent chance that global warming is caused by humans.
The U.S. government delegation was not one of the more vocal groups in the debate over the “very likely” statement for man-made warming.
The Chinese delegation was resistant to strong wording on global warming, China has increasingly turned to fossil fuels, which emit the greenhouse gases blamed for boosting Earth’s temperature, to feed its huge and growing energy needs.
A draft of the report predicts a temperature increase of between 2.5 to 10.4 degrees by the year 2100, although that could be adjusted.
Another contentious issue is predictions of sea level rise, because they cannot predict how much ice will melt from Greenland and Antarctica.
As the delegates hold their evening session, the Eiffel Tower, other Paris monuments and concerned citizens in several European countries were expected to switch off their lights for five minutes to call attention to energy conservation.
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