Confirming apprehensions of the global scientific and environmental community, the latest report prepared by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, made dire assessments and predictions about the present and future of the world’s climate in its summary report for policymakers released early this week.
“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred,” the sixth assessment report of the first working group of IPCC said. As a consequence, the report predicted that the average global temperature would rise by …
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