Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Monday, August 9th. I'm Naila Boudou. Here's

what you need to know today. The pandemic has changed our relationship with trash. Plus,

Ena freeds biggest takeaways from the Olympics. But first, today's one big thing. Global

scientists strongest stance yet on climate change.

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its latest report this morning

on global warming and its troubling. To give you an idea of why this report matters, in 2018,

it galvanized one great-to-tune berk, and an entire youth movement around climate change.

Axios' Andrew Friedman is here to catch us up on this report. Good morning, Andrew.

Good morning. How does this report speak to the moment that we're in right now?

So this report arrives right as we're watching raging wildfires in the Western U.S.

in the Mediterranean region of Europe, in Siberia. It arrives when we have all these

heat waves going on. And it basically seals the deal on the question of whether human

caused climate change is having an influence on extreme events. And it just says essentially,

yes, and every single increment, every tenth of a degree of global warming makes those extreme

events much worse, particularly when you're talking about heat waves and extreme precipitation

events, as well as drought and wildfire as well. So that's strong language in that report.

That's a first, calling the connection between human activity and global warming,

quote, unequivocal. Why is that language important?

So that language is the most heavily argued language in this report.

And this means that 195 country representatives agreed that the human influence on climate change

is unequivocal, that essentially the argument that anything other than human activities,

such as the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, anything other than that causing climate change

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