Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

In late 2019, Bolivia held a presidential vote in which quite a few things didn't seem right.

Was the election stolen? Was it a coup?

Nearly two years on, these questions are still being asked, and still having a crippling effect on the country's politics.

And the greater the success for a first-time novelist, the greater the dread of the expectations

of a follow-up.

Our data team looks into the well-known but not much studied effect of the difficult second novel.

First up, though.

You've been telling us for over three decades of the dangers of allowing the planet to warm.

The world listened but didn't hear.

The world listened, but it didn't act strongly enough.

And as a result, climate change is a problem that is here now.

Nobody's safe and it's getting worse faster.

The intergovernmental panel on climate change has a long history of choosing its words carefully.

But in the latest landmark report from the UN's Global Climate Authority released this morning,

the tone is shifting.

For years, there was a whisper of uncertainty, of unwillingness to make definitive and damning statements.

It's clear from the words of IPCC Chairman Hohsong Li that reluctance is going.

First, it tells us that it is indisputable that human activities are causing climate change

and making extreme weather events more frequent and severe.

Second, it shows that climate change is affecting every region on our planet.

And lastly, it explains that strong, rapid, sustained reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions

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