List of scientific bodies with official statements on human-cause global climate change

National and international science academies and learned scientific societies have assessed the current scientific opinion on climate change, in particular recent global warming. These assessments have largely followed or endorsed the Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:
:An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system... There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.
This list documents only scientific bodies of national or international standing that have issued position statements or formal declarations either confirming or disputing human-caused climate change. It does not include individual scientists, individual universities or laboratories, or government agencies. The list is organized alphabetically.
List of scientific bodies that affirm human-caused global climate change
*Academy of Sciences Malaysia
*Academy of Science of South Africa
*American Association for the Advancement of Science
*American Astronomical Society
*American Chemical Society
*American Geophysical Union
*American Institute of Physics
*American Meteorological Society
*American Physical Society
*American Quaternary Association
*Australian Academy of Science
*Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
*Brazilian Academy of Sciences
*Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences
*Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences
*Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
*Caribbean Academy of Sciences
*Chinese Academy of Sciences
*European Academy of Sciences and Arts
*European Geosciences Union
*European Science Foundation
*French Academy of Sciences
*German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
*Geological Society of America
*Geological Society of London-Stratigraphy Commission
*Indian National Science Academy
*Indonesian Academy of Sciences
*InterAcademy Council
*International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences
*International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
*International Union for Quaternary Research
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*Mexican Academy of Sciences
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*Network of African Science Academies
*Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts
*Royal Irish Academy
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*Royal Society of Canada
*Royal Society of New Zealand
*Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
*Russian Academy of Sciences
*Science Council of Japan
List of scientific bodies that dispute human-caused global climate change
None.
Note: In 1999, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists issued a formal policy statement in which they disputed human-caused climate change. That position was retracted in 2007, leaving no remaining scientific body of national or international standing known to reject the basic findings of human influence on recent climate changes.
 
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