Reports by the U.N. climate panel

(Reuters) - Top climate experts warned on Friday that global warming will cause faster and wider damage than previously forecast, ranging from hunger in Africa and Asia to extinctions and rising ocean levels.

Following are details about reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), set up in 1988 by the United Nations to help guide governments. It draws on work by about 2,500 specialists from more than 130 nations and last issued reports in 2001.

2007 REPORTS

PARIS, Feb 2 - The first IPCC report of 2007, an overview of the science of global warming, said that it was "very likely" or at least 90 percent certain that mankind was to blame for most of the warming in the last half century.

The previous report in 2001 had put the probability at "likely", or at least 66 percent. The new report projected a "best estimate" that temperatures would rise by 1.8 to 4.0 degrees Celsius (3.2-7.2 Fahrenheit) this century.

BRUSSELS, April 6 - The second report details the likely impacts of climate change around the globe, such as on health, farming and water availability.

BANGKOK, May 4 - The third report, "Mitigation of Climate Change", will analyze ways to fight global warming, including options and costs for reining in emissions of greenhouse gases.

VALENCIA, Spain, Nov 16 - A fourth "Synthesis Report" will sum up all the findings.

PAST IPCC REPORTS -- 2001, 1995, 1990