Human activities contributing to climate change

A review from the UK Meteorological Office says it is becoming clearer that human activities are causing climate change.



It says the evidence is stronger now than when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) carried out its last assessment in 2007.



In 2007, the IPCC\'s report concluded that there was unequivocal evidence that the Earth was warming and it was likely that it was due to burning of fossil fuels.



However, according to this new assessment by Dr Peter Stott and colleagues at the UK Met Office the evidence that human activities are responsible for a rise in temperatures has increased since 2007.



The latest study, has found that changes in Arctic sea ice, atmospheric moisture, saltiness of parts of the Atlantic Ocean and temperature changes in the Antarctic are consistent with human influence on our climate.