The Summary for Policymakers of the report, “Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis”, the first volume of “Climate Change 2007”, will be released on 2nd February.  The press conference will be broadcast live on the web.

Extracts from the press release:

"The report assesses the current scientific knowledge of the natural and human
drivers of climate change, observed changes in climate, the ability of
science to attribute changes to different causes, and projections for
future climate change.

"The Report includes significantly advanced observations of the climate
system, presents new projections of future global climate change using
results from 19 climate models, all with improved representations of
physics, chemistry, and spatial resolution. The report also covers the
range of anthropogenic greenhouse gases and other factors that drive
climate change. There will also be a Chapter assessing the
paleoclimatic perspective.

"The WGI report does not cover the impacts of climate change or options
for the mitigation of climate change. These aspects will be covered in
subsequent reports by Working Group II (impacts, adaptation and
vulnerability), and Working Group III (mitigation options) to be
finalised respectively in early April and early May this year In
addition a Synthesis Report covering key findings of all three Working
Groups will be released in late 2007."

The press conference will be broadcast here.