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filling in for Dorothy Wickenden.

For decades, climate change has been discussed as a threat to the future.

Unless action is taken now to control global warming,

the consequences in decades to come could be catastrophic. But this summer, natural disasters around the world have driven home that the era of climate catastrophe has already begun.

Extreme heat in Canada, the Pacific Northwest in Siberia, fires across the American West and in Greece and Turkey,

mega floods in Germany and China.

And for perhaps the first time, wealthy countries are being forced to deal with the effects of a warming planet

alongside the poorer nations where those effects have long been felt.

On Monday, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report derived from thousands of studies.

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