Credit: nationalreview.com
And night follows day. They were never going to turn the anti-human climate propaganda volume down. This latest report ‘is expected to be even more worrying’. Are we quaking in our supposedly doom-filled boots yet?
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A new UN science report is set to send what may be the starkest warning yet about the impacts of climate change on people and the planet, says the Evening Standard.
The assessment is the second in a series of three reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the latest review of climate science, which take place every six or seven years for governments.
It is being published on Monday, a little over 100 days after the Cop26 summit agreed to increase action to try and limit global warming to 1.5C (2.7F) to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
The outcomes of the UN talks in Glasgow were described as keeping the temperature goal alive, but only with a weak pulse, by conference president Alok Sharma.
The first in the series of reports was described as a “code red for humanity” by UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres when it was released last summer before Cop26 setting out the unequivocal and unprecedented impact humans were having on the planet.
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The latest assessment, which looks at the impacts of climate change, efforts to adapt to rising temperatures and vulnerabilities is expected to be even more worrying.
A draft leaked last year warned of the risk of crossing dangerous thresholds or “tipping points”, where things such as melting of ice sheets or permafrost, or rainforests becoming grassland, become irreversible, with huge consequences.
The final version of the study will be released after its summary was approved line-by-line in a process involving representatives of governments and scientists over the past two weeks, but which overran by a day as delegates continued to haggle over the text.
What it does mean is that governments have signed off on the findings of the final version.
The report will set out the impacts of rising temperatures, which have already reached 1.1C (1.98F) above pre-industrial levels, from droughts to floods, storms, effects on health, agriculture and cities, and cascading and irreversible impacts.
There will be a specific focus on the different regions of the world, as well as looking at vulnerable populations and communities, migration and displacement.
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