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    Sep 23, 2021 4 minutes

    No longer business as usual for climate-changed gardens

    Gardeners are already facing unprecedented and irreversible climate change, as greenhouse gas emissions warm the planet to record-breaking levels, a major report from the United Nations has confirmed. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) review is the first since 2013 and says that extreme heatwaves, heavy rainfall and rising sea levels are already with us, as a direct result of the world getting warmer by more than 1°C in the past century.

    “Seemingly small changes in global temperature have a very big impact,” says former BBC weatherman and chair of Radio 4’s , Peter Gibbs. “Weather that would have seemed exceptional 50 or 60 years ago is now not

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