The most damning conclusions from the UN’s special climate change report

A grim dose of climate change news has arrived, and top scientists are urging us to deal with it — now.  

The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — the global agency tasked with providing objective analyses of the societal impacts of climate change — released a powerful report Sunday evening. 

It concluded that limiting Earth’s warming to just 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-Industrial Revolution temperatures would require “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society.”

“The next few years are probably the most important in our history,” Debra Roberts, an environmental scientist and one of the report’s lead authors, said in a statement.  Read more…

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