The IPCC Report: The Demise of the 'Here-Us-Now' Civilization

摘要

The major new report from the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released in Korea on October 8 (2018), is nearly 800 pages long and includes more than 6,000 scientific references. However, it can be summarized in just a few sentences with horrific implications. The average global temperature is now 1.0℃ above its pre-industrial levels. That increase is already causing more extreme weather, rising sea levels and diminishing Arctic sea ice, and is damaging an untold number of land and sea ecosystems.