A few weeks ago the latest climate change report was released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It distils the key policy messages from the IPPC's assessment of more than 9,000 scientific articles, written by 259 leading scientists from 30 countries worldwide. In short, it says the science community now has 95% confidence that human activity has caused most, and probably all of the rapid global warming over the past 60 years. The implications are more concerning than previously thought. Within 20-30 years the world will face nearly inevitable warming of over 2℃, resulting in rising sea levels, heat waves, droughts and more extreme weather.
展开▼
