Evidence that human-induced global warming is occurring is stronger than ever and Japan, along with other Northern Hemisphere countries, could see the most drastic rises in temperature as a result, according to a new report released Monday.
"There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities," said the report, compiled by a climate change working group for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and reviewed by hundreds of experts and government officials in Shanghai.
The report predicts that between 1990 and 2100, the average surface temperature of the earth could rise from 1.4 to 5.8 degrees, revised upward from 1 to 3.5 degrees in an earlier report released in 1995.