Five Key Takeaways From the New IPCC Climate Risk Report
For starters, climate dangers aren’t far off in the future but “right here, wherever you live.”
Residents walk through flood waters to assess damage after a levee breach following Tropical Storm Barry's landfall in Myrtle Grove, Louisiana, July 14, 2019.
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With attention fixed on the war raging in Ukraine just days after an invasion by Russia, there’s a greater-than-normal risk that the latest report from the coalition of top scientists on the UN-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will go overlooked. Which is, in a way, something that the hundreds of authors worried about in compiling this 3,500-page report: Among the worst case scenarios analyzed for future warming is a world where “a resurgent nationalism, concerns about competitiveness and security, and regional conflicts” make global collaboration nearly impossible.