Last chance to limit the damage: IPCC study shows climate emergency worse than earlier predictions

Truck Stop and Twilight Supercell

Amazing supercell storm during twilight nears a York Nebraska truck stop on I80 as it spits out lightning, June 17, 2009. Only a half hour or so earlier this storm was producing a long-lived large tornado near Aurora Nebraska. Credit: Mike Hollingshead/Getty Images

A key climate change report has found humans have some ability to confront the global climate emergency but the changes still pose a major threat to natural systems and people. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change study shows the effects of the crisis are more rapid and worse than earlier predictions.


A child born today is likely to face three to four times as many extreme weather events over their lifetime than their grandparents did.
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