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"Scientists have delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis, as rising
greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that
only swift and drastic action can avert.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), made up of the world’s
leading climate scientists, set out the final part of its mammoth sixth
assessment report on Monday.
The comprehensive review of human knowledge of the climate crisis took hundreds
of scientists eight years to compile and runs to thousands of pages, but boiled
down to one message: act now, or it will be too late.
The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said: “This report is a clarion
call to massively fast-track climate efforts by every country and every sector
and on every timeframe. Our world needs climate action on all fronts:
everything, everywhere, all at once.”
In sober language, the IPCC set out the devastation that has already been
inflicted on swathes of the world. Extreme weather caused by climate breakdown
has led to increased deaths from intensifying heatwaves in all regions,
millions of lives and homes destroyed in droughts and floods, millions of
people facing hunger, and “increasingly irreversible losses” in vital
ecosystems.
Monday’s final instalment, called the synthesis report, is almost certain to be
the last such assessment while the world still has a chance of limiting global
temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, the threshold beyond
which our damage to the climate will rapidly become irreversible."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
