The world authority on climate change has delivered its strongest statement yet: “unprecedented” human-made heat is already here, along with floods and other extremes. READ MORE:* Why August 9 is a huge day for climate action* Budget 2020: trading coronavirus for the climate crisis* We've slowed climate change once. The findings are in the latest report from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), which has released its first full assessment of the physical science of climate change in eight years. The melting of polar sea ice in this region could snowball heating, because white ice reflects more heat back to space than water. Climate change can make wildfires more intense.

Source: Stuff August 09, 2021 08:00 UTC