UN to deliver diagnosis, prescription for climate crisis


Science in the last decade has elevated the danger posed by so-called tipping points in Earth’s climate system that could see tropical forests in the Amazon morph into savannah, and ice sheets in Greenland and West Antarctica shed enough water to lift oceans by metres. – EPA pic, March 20, 2023.

THE United Nations was poised to release a capstone report today distilling nearly a decade of published science on the impacts and trajectory of global warming, and the tools available to prevent climate catastrophe.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 30-odd page “summary for policymakers” – compressing 10,500 pages authored by more than 1,000 scientists – is as dense as a black hole and will deliver a stark warning.


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