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The Guardian view on the IPCC climate report: the fierce urgency of now | Editorial
The world’s political leaders must heed the dramatic warning that climate scientists have delivered
The sixth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was published against a glowing backdrop of orange skies, as vast wildfires sweep through Greece and California. In western Germany, thousands of homes remain without running water or electricity following the devastating floods of July. In Yakutsk in Siberia – the coldest winter city on earth – residents were warned last month to stay inside as forest fires filled the air with toxic smoke, following heatwaves that began in the spring.
Eight years in the making, authored by the world’s leading climate scientists and approved by 195 national governments, the report confirmed the meaning of the evidence before our eyes: the cumulative impact of human activity since the Industrial Revolution is “unequivocally” causing rapid and potentially catastrophic changes to the climate. The future that environmental scientists foresaw with alarm, when the IPCC produced its first report three decades ago, has arrived.
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It is an unanswerable question, of course – we’ve been here too many times before to pretend otherwise – but everyone should read the summary of the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, regardless. Using careful scientific language, it tells the story of what is happening across the planet with a bracing clarity that is at once familiar and alarming.
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The world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases must produce clear plans to cut their carbon output drastically, the president of vital UN climate talks has urged, after scientists warned there was only a small chance of escaping the worst ravages of climate breakdown.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change set out the starkest warning yet on the widespread and “unprecedented” changes to the climate that are “unequivocally” the result of human actions. Extreme weather resulting from these changes was already seen around the world and growing worse, in the form of rising temperatures, more frequent and fiercer storms, heatwaves, droughts, floods and sea level rises, according to the biggest assessment of climate science in eight years.
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'Nobody is safe': UN warns climate crisis poses immediate threat – video
Inger Andersen of the UN Environment Programme has said the climate crisis poses an 'immediate threat', adding that 'every citizen needs to play their part'. Only drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions this decade can prevent global temperatures from rising to disastrous levels, according to the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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Boris Johnson: IPCC climate report makes for sobering reading
Prime minister says warning from UN scientists should give world a wake-up call ahead of Cop26 summit
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Boris Johnson has described the latest warnings from UN scientists about the extent of the climate crisis as “sobering reading” that should provide the world with a wake-up call ahead of the Cop26 summit.
With the global climate conference due to open in Glasgow in less than three months, the British prime minister said he hoped the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) would highlight the need for action now.
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The IPCC report is clear: nothing short of transforming society will avert catastrophe | Patrick Vallance
Achieving net zero will require action from everyone – and a renewed emphasis on science and innovation
- Patrick Vallance is the UK government chief scientific adviser
The release today of the first part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment report makes for stark reading. It reaffirms that anthropogenic climate change is real, present and lasting: it is now unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land to an unprecedented degree, with effects almost certain to worsen through the coming decades.
The report also dispels any notion that the effects of the climate crisis are abstract or distant. Extreme events are being felt across the world, from wildfires in Australia, Sweden and north-west America to heatwaves in Siberia and Canada and the devastating drought in South Africa. Evidence has grown since the last assessment report that human activity has exacerbated extreme weather events. Without urgent action, such events will continue to get worse. Moreover, sea levels are projected to rise over this century. Rises of as much as 2m cannot be ruled out, leaving low-lying lands and coastal communities extremely vulnerable.
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This is the most sobering report card yet on climate change and Earth’s future. What you need to know
Climate change is now affecting every continent, region and ocean on Earth, and every facet of the weather. Here are the key takeaway's from the latest IPCC climate report.
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Rising seas and melting glaciers: these changes are now irreversible, but we have to act to slow them down
The underlying message remains the same. The longer we wait, the more devastating the consequences.
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