IPCC climate report: Hopes fading of curbing global warming to 2°C

摘要

The sixth assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published today, findsthat the effects of climate change are clearly already being felt in “every inhabited region across the globe”.Western Europe is becoming hotter, while also both more prone to drought and intense rainfall.It is “virtually certain that hot extremes (including heatwaves) have become more frequent and more intense acrossmost land regions since the 1950s”, it says. The report adds that some recent events – a reference to widespreadand intense wildfires in recent years – are “extremely unlikely” without climate change.