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Act now: understanding the latest warnings in the IPCC report

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The Guardian

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4.21K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has given humanity a stark warning: without immediate and rapid action on climate breakdown, a liveable and sustainable future for all is at risk. The assessment, which is based on 34,000 studies, documents the ‘widespread and pervasive’ impacts on people and the natural world, and analyses how humanity can adapt. It also offers a small piece of good news – a liveable future remains within grasp. But the window of opportunity for action is ‘brief and rapidly closing’. Ian Sample speaks to environment editor Damian Carrington about the IPCC’s findings and how fast humanity needs to act. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod

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0:00.0

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0:18.0

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0:23.0

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0:26.0

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0:37.1

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0:51.0

It's been termed the bleakest warning yet. The message this report sends is clear. Climate change isn't lurking

0:56.0

around the corner waiting to pounce, and it's already upon us, raining down blows

1:01.2

on billions of people.

1:03.0

So dire was the picture painted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in a report released yesterday

1:10.0

that the UN Secretary General Antonio Gaterris described it as an atlas of human suffering.

1:16.7

This report reveals how people and the planet are getting clobbered by climate change.

1:22.1

No inhabited region will escape the effects of rising

1:24.8

temperatures and ever more extreme weather events and some of the impacts are

1:28.9

already irreversible. The findings of the ICC report we are releasing today are clear. The stakes for

1:37.4

our planet have never been higher.

1:50.0

Still, it did provide a glimmer of hope, a window to act. It's not a big window, but it's there. A short time when we can avoid the worst.

1:55.8

I know people everywhere are anxious and angry. I am too. Now is the time to turn rage into action. Every fraction of their degree matters. Every voice can make a difference and every second counts.

2:10.0

But with everything else that's happening in the world, will we take this chance in time?

2:16.0

What can we do to adapt to a warming world?

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