NEW YORK – The newest climate report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that climate change is “unequivocally” caused by humans and warns that global temperatures are expected to reach a significant warming milestone in the next 20 years.
The planet is expected to reach average temperatures that are 1.5 degrees warmer than a pre-industrial baseline by 2040, according to the report, which was released on Monday.
A prior special report from the IPCC found that keeping warming below this level would prevent climate-related impacts on extreme weather, biodiversity and food security.
The report also warns that climate change will increasingly be seen in heat waves, more frequent and intense precipitation and droughts.
The report from the IPCC, which was created by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations, stated that increases in greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere since about 1750 were “unequivocally caused by human activities.”
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