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Hey Becky Herscher.

Hey Emily Kwong.

So there's been a lot of climate science news recently.

Yeah, totally.

This summer has been really busy for climate reporters like me.

So it feels like there have just been nonstop weather disasters, right?

High heat will reach beyond the desert this week.

The pulse of Greece's wildfires continue to burn out.

We'll have you flooding is also affecting parts of India.

And then on top of that, there was this huge climate science report published by the

United Nations last week.

It says the following, climate change is accelerating.

Humans must cut greenhouse gas emissions now, or some of the changes we are seeing to the

earth will be permanent.

And the big takeaway from that report was that humans are causing a lot of this extreme

weather by emitting greenhouse gases and that we're running out of time to avoid truly

catastrophic global warming this century.

Yeah, I think the word was unequivocal.

The report said quote, it is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere

ocean and land.

And Becky scientists don't reach for a word like that out of the blue, you know, like

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