Countries must settle their differences at climate talks later this year to minimize the impact of global warming, according to the head of a U.N. panel of climate change experts.
Citing statistics from reports recently released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which he chairs, Robert Watson warned that temperatures will rise on average between 1.4 and 5.8 degrees in the next 100 years, with countries in northern latitudes seeing as much as a 7 degree jump.
"In 1995 we said there was a discernible human influence (on the climate)," he told The Japan Times in an interview. "Now we have said that most of the observed warming over the past 50 years is due to human activities. That is a much stronger statement,"