A panel of eminent U.S. and European scientists has confirmed the widespread scientific consensus that the Earth's climate is warming due to human activities.

In a symposium Friday (February 19, 2010) at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement Science, AAAS in San Diegeo, U.S., the scientific leaders acknowledged errors in a 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and possibly impolitic email exchanges by East Anglian University climate researchers.

But they expressed shock at the political effects of the disclosures and said the impact was far out of proportion to the overwhelming evidence that human activity is changing the Earth's climate.

Read more about this symposion at  Environment News Service: http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2010/2010-02-20-01.html