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

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.

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 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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