As the IPCC says major climate changes inevitable and irreversible... [View all]

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... the lack of urgency from world leaders just got way more serious...


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Of course we cannot wait until 2050, apart from anything else, although this is a good analogy - if we don't stop dicking about the icebergs will have melted well before then... flood, fire, famine in 3...2...1...

The comprehensive assessment of climate science published on Monday, the sixth such report from the IPCC since 1988, has been eight years in the making, marshalling the work of hundreds of experts and peer-review studies. It represents the world’s full knowledge to date of the physical basis of climate change, and found that human activity was “unequivocally” the cause of rapid changes to the climate, including sea level rises, melting polar ice and glaciers, heatwaves, floods and droughts.

World leaders said the stark findings must force new policy measures as a matter of urgency, to shift the global economy to a low-carbon footing. Governments from 197 countries will meet this November in Glasgow for vital UN climate talks, called Cop26.

[link:https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/09/humans-have-caused-unprecedented-and-irreversible-change-to-climate-scientists-warn|]

I'm not sure even this report will be enough to move the dial of denial TBH.