For example, in a 1999 paper based on a speech to Exxon's European affiliates, Flannery derided the second IPCC assessment that concluded in 1995 that the scientific evidence suggested «
a discernible human influence on climate.»
The 1995 report said: «the balance of the evidence suggests
a discernible human influence on climate».
the only conclusion of this 1996 report — that there's
a discernible human influence on climate.
But there is now an effective consensus among the world's leading scientists and serious and well - informed people outside the scientific community that there is
a discernible human influence on the climate and a link between the concentration of carbon dioxide and the increase in temperature.
In his words from the IPCC's Second Assessment, published in 1995, «The balance of evidence suggests
a discernible human influence on climate.»