The latest climate report is out... and it's scarier than ever before

The IPCC's latest report about the physical science of climate change comes out today. And it's not bedtime reading. It contains the strongest evidence yet of the damage we are doing to the planet and the dramatic shifts we are causing in our climate system. It shows even more starkly what could happen if we continue to emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere - including irreversible changes that would reshape our world completely. And it reinforces the same message that climate scientists have been giving for decades: every tonne of CO2 matters.

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