The us has perpetually been in denial about global warming, especially after the Earth Summit in Rio De Janerio held in 1992, but a recent report released by the us Climate Change Science Program (ccsp) may shake it out of its complacency. The report adds ammunition for lobbies within the us and forces outside it for pushing the world's only superpower towards signing the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on global warming. It does this by demystifying the debate over the contribution of human activity to climate change. While science has increasingly shown that climate change is induced by human action, industry and the us government have called scientific findings "hallucinations'.br>
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The ccsp report, published on May 2, 2006, claims to be one step ahead of earlier reports by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (ipcc) and the National Research Council (nrc). ipcc's third assessment report in 2001 had brought out that there was an increase in the overall average global temperature by 1