Design for Climate Change

1Agenda for a Changing Climate

Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level.

Fourth Assessment Report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2007

There is an overwhelming scientific consensus that:

• the climate is changing
• these changes are very likely due to increased global greenhouse-gas concentrations resulting from human activity, particularly from the use of fossil fuels
• these changes will continue if we remain on our current path, with increasingly severe consequences for all life on the planet
• there is considerable momentum in the climate system; ...