UN: Mankind ‘95% likely’ to blame for global warming

UN experts met to review a draft report that raises the probability that climate change is man-made to 95% and warns of ever more extreme weather unless governments act.

Scientists and officials from more than 110 governments began a four-day meeting in Stockholm to edit and approve the 31-page draft that also tries to explain a “hiatus” in the pace of global warming this century despite rising greenhouse gas emissions.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will go through the document line by line and present it on Friday as a main guide for governments, which have agreed to work out a UN deal by the end of 2015 to fight global warming.