{"id":58977,"date":"2021-08-12T07:30:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T12:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58977"},"modified":"2021-08-12T07:30:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T12:30:53","slug":"this-is-the-most-sobering-report-card-yet-on-climate-change-and-earths-future-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58977","title":{"rendered":"This is the most sobering report card yet on climate change and Earth\u2019s future. Here\u2019s what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is the most sobering report card yet on climate change and Earth\u2019s future. Here\u2019s what you need to know<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

Earth has warmed 1.09\u2103 since pre-industrial times and many changes such as sea-level rise and glacier melt are now virtually irreversible, according to the most sobering report yet by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The report also found escape from human-caused climate change is no longer possible. Climate change is now affecting every continent, region and ocean on Earth, and every facet of the weather.<\/p>\n

The long-awaited report is the sixth assessment of its kind since the panel was\u00a0formed in 1988<\/a>. It will give world leaders the most timely, accurate information about climate change ahead of a crucial international summit in Glasgow, Scotland in November.<\/p>\n

The IPCC<\/a> is the peak climate science body of the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization. It is the global authority on the state of Earth\u2019s climate and how human activities affect it. We are authors of the latest IPCC report and have drawn from the work of thousands of scientists from around the world to produce this new assessment.<\/p>\n

Sadly, there is hardly any good news in the 3,900 pages of text released today. But there is still time to avert the worst damage, if humanity chooses to.<\/p>\n

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Escape from human-caused climate change is no longer possible.<\/span>\u00a0John McConnico\/AP<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s unequivocal: humans are warming the planet<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the first time, the IPCC states unequivocally \u2014 leaving absolutely no room for doubt \u2013 humans are responsible for the observed warming of the atmosphere, lands and oceans.<\/p>\n

The IPCC finds Earth\u2019s global surface temperature warmed 1.09\u2103 between 1850-1900 and the last decade. This is 0.29\u2103 warmer than in the\u00a0previous IPCC report in 2013<\/a>. (It should be noted that 0.1\u2103 of the increase is due to data improvements.)<\/p>\n

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This is the most sobering report card yet on climate change and Earth\u2019s future. Here\u2019s what you need to know Earth has warmed 1.09\u2103 since pre-industrial times and many changes such as sea-level rise and glacier melt are now virtually irreversible, according to the most sobering report yet by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[141,435,440,31615,31616,31617,31618,31614,8487,822,826],"class_list":["post-58977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-climate-change","tag-international-panel-on-climate-change","tag-ipcc","tag-joelle-gergis","tag-malte-meinshausen","tag-mark-hemer","tag-michael-grose","tag-pep-canadell","tag-the-conversation","tag-un","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58978,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58977\/revisions\/58978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}