SUMMARY - What the IPCC Actually Says
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) represents the most comprehensive effort to assess climate science ever undertaken. Thousands of scientists from around the world volunteer to review and synthesize tens of thousands of peer-reviewed papers, producing reports that represent the scientific community's collective judgment on what we know about climate change—its causes, its impacts, and our options for response. Yet IPCC reports are often misrepresented, selectively quoted, or misunderstood. What does the IPCC actually say?