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> > INCHEON, South Korea — A landmark report from the United Nations’ > scientific panel on climate change paints a far more dire picture of the > immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought and says > that avoiding the damage requires transforming the world economy at a speed > and scale that has “no documented historic precedent.” > > The report <http://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/>, issued on Monday by the > Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of scientists convened > by the United Nations to guide world leaders, describes a world of > worsening food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs > as soon as 2040 — a period well within the lifetime of much of the global > population. > > The report “is quite a shock, and quite concerning,” said Bill Hare, an > author of previous I.P.C.C. reports and a physicist with Climate Analytics, > a nonprofit organization. “We were not aware of this just a few years > ago.” The report was the first to be commissioned by world leaders under > the Paris agreement, *the 2015 pact by nations to fight global warming* > <https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/world/europe/climate-change-accord-paris.html?module=inline> > . > > https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/climate/ipcc-climate-report-2040.html > > > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
