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Earth To Warm By 1.5 Degree Celsius By 2040, UN Report Warns
Consensus Now Says Human Influence on Climate Warming Is 'Established Fact'
August 9, 2021--In a massive 3949-page report, a United Nations working group warns that the climate is warming and humans influence is a cause. The report covers every area of the world. It discusses both the cause and effect. Most notably, it warns that even under the best-case scenario, scientists predict the Earth will warm by 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2040.
"It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land," the report said."Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred."
It is the sixth of eight reports by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The report comes in advance of the UN Climate Change Conference i...