Report Gives 'Plain English Answers' To Common Questions on Climate Science

摘要

Scientists from the U.S. and United Kingdom released a report Feb. 27 that provides "plain English answers" to common questions about climate change science. The report seeks to explain in a question and answer format the evidence behind human-caused climate change, the meaning of the recent slowdown in global warming and other areas of public debate. "These are the things people want to understand," Benjamin Santer, a researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and one of the report's authors, said at a launch event. "They want plain English answers." The report, "Climate Change: Evidence and Causes," was prepared by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society, the U.K. national science academy.