That’s the takeaway message from a United Nations report on climate change, which sets out the devastating impacts of the crisis around the globe. AdvertisementThe report makes clear that human-caused climate change, which has pushed up global temperatures by 1.1ºC, is driving weather and climate extremes in every region across the world. The study, by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is the largest ever report into climate change. AdvertisementProfessor Dave Reay, director of the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute, said the report should “send a shiver down the spine of everyone who reads it”. AdvertisementIt’s easy to feel overwhelmed when you hear a statistic like this and to feel that climate change is too big to solve.

Source: Huffington Post August 09, 2021 11:26 UTC