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Beyond all doubt, humans cause global heating. The question is: are we too late?

It is unequivocal.” Those stark three words are the first in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report. The climate crisis is unequivocally caused by human activities and is unequivocally affecting every corner of the planet’s land, air and sea already.

The report, produced by hundreds of the world’s top scientists and signed off by all governments, concludes that climate change could get far worse if the slim chance remaining to avert heating above 1.5C is not grasped.

The scientific language of the report is cold

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