US gov't report confirms human-induced warming

An article in today's NY Times reports "A scientific study commissioned by the Bush administration concluded yesterday that the lower atmosphere was indeed growing warmer and that there was "clear evidence of human influences on the climate system."

The report, available here, reconciled [what some perceived to be] a disagreement between satellite and surface observations of global temperature. The results may be no surprise to a lot of people in the climate community, but it will help silence one noted and often unfoudned crtique of the evidence for global warming.

The NY Times article quotes John Christy from University of Alabama, one of the authors of the study and often a skeptic of climate change, as saying he endorses the conclusion that "part of what has happened over the last 50 years has clearly been caused by humans."