IPCC warns of ‘unprecedented state of climate system’ due to human impacts on planet
Published 11 Aug,2021 via Daily News Egypt - A landmark international report warned of the continued human impact on the Earth causing widespread and rapid changes to oceans, ice, and land systems. The current state of the climate system is “unprecedented in thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years,” according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released on Monday.
The IPCC Working Group I report, Climate Change 2021: the Physical Science Basis, provided the clearest and most comprehensive assessment to date of the warming of the atmosphere, oceans, and land.
The Working Group I report is the first instalment of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), which will be completed in 2022.
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