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welcome to the cotkey ride home for for Monday, August 9th, 2021.

I'm Jackson Bird today.

Some context and takeaways from the big UN climate report released this morning.

NASA opened applications for their Mars simulation mission.

And why are some people in Japan sending bags of rice with their baby's face on them to relatives?

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

You probably saw a lot of headlines today about this new UN climate change report saying that the climate

emergency is now code red. It's a pretty alarming report to be sure, but it's also a useful tool

in understanding where we're at and where we may go, so I thought it might be helpful to compile

a few explainers here today. First, who is this report from exactly?

It was published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, the United

Nations Climate Science Research Group.

Now, they're the ones who put the report together, but they don't write it.

That job falls to hundreds of scientists around the world.

This is the sixth assessment report, the first major report that the IPCC has released in eight years, but it's not actually

all out yet. The report making headlines today is the first of three installments. And like past

reports, this first installment is about the research that has emerged since the prior report.

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