The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), long
regarded as the single most trustworthy source of information on
climate science, states unequivocally that Earth's climate is
warming rapidly and that we're now more than 90 percent certain
that human activities have caused most of the observed warming
in recent decades. The research behind these findings, published
in the IPCC's landmark 2007 report, is rock-solid science. In
recognition of the importance and excellence of the IPCC's work
in bringing climate science to the attention of policy makers
and the public, the group shared half of the 2007 Nobel Peace
Prize. Everybody at the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC) negotiations, which took place last month in
Bali, Indonesia, was aware of the IPCC's latest conclusions.
These negotiations are an annual event, and the Bali meeting
attracted more than 10,000 people, including a large press corps
and many stakeholders from the energy industry and environmental
interest groups. I att