India - Understanding IPCC report on climate change & its jargon, heatwaves, floods, catastrophe

In the light of widely anticipated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report Shekhar Gupta analyses the cause for alarm & simplifies issues related to climate change, its science & politics in episode 809 of #CutTheClutter Brought to you by @Kia India Read the IPCC report here: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/do...

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